Seven Veils

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Darryl It was ok the ending was not good Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 03/11/25 Full Review Will Atom Egoyan uses his own blockbuster staging of Richard Strauss' "Salome" as the backdrop for a contemporary drama that struggles to entwine story threads about the creation of art, backstage politics, MeToo, sexual trauma and marriage anxiety. Alas, the results are a near-incoherent mess. Seyfried gives it her all, but the entire film is weighed down by multiple storylines that feel like bumper cars smashing into one another incessantly. Egoyan has every right to be proud of his brilliantly conceived 2023 production of "Salome," which looks like it would have made a better movie than this. Maybe if he had trimmed a few subplots from his script and better developed just one or two of them, he would have a stronger drama. Instead, he made a "multilayered" mess full of sound and fury, but signifying nothing. Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 03/10/25 Full Review Remy Didn't enjoy much. Story about a bipolar theater director was boring. Rated 0.5/5 Stars •  Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 03/08/25 Full Review John K Afternoon matinee in Canada at a theatre with terrific sound. Still tingling. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 05/09/25 Full Review John A One of cinema's most evocative auteurs demonstrates to us all he has not abandoned his roots. 'Seven Veils' feels an awful lot like Egoyan's early stuff like 'Speaking Parts' and 'Family Viewing'. It is very small-scale and character-driven. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 05/06/25 Full Review MB C “Seven Veils is one of those films that quietly burrows under your skin...” An Opera Wi“Seven Veils” is not just a film about staging an opera — it’s a haunting meditation on memory, control, and the emotional cost of artistic creation. Atom Egoyan delivers a psychologically intricate narrative where past trauma bleeds into present performance. Through Jeanine, a troubled director revisiting the opera that shaped (and perhaps scarred) her, the film becomes a ritual of reckoning: with ghosts, with silence, and with the manipulation of pain into art. Seyfried's restrained yet gripping performance anchors a film that often feels like a dream folding into itself — where flashbacks emerge as theatrical fragments and symbols dominate over linear exposition. The film thrives on visual metaphor: the seven veils, the old camera, the stage’s oppressive darkness — each a layer of Jeanine’s unraveling psyche. While the pacing may test some viewers’ patience, and certain symbolic scenes tip into overstatement, “Seven Veils” remains an intellectually bold and emotionally unsettling experience. It asks not for understanding, but for confrontation. Rating: 7/10 Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 04/20/25 Full Review Read all reviews

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