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Seven Veils

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After years away, theater director Jeanine (Academy Award® nominee Amanda Seyfried) re-enters the opera world to stage her former mentor's most famous work. Haunted by dark and disturbing memories from her past, Jeanine allows her repressed trauma to color the present as her personal and professional lives begin to unravel.
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One of director Atom Egoyan's most successful efforts in years and a multidimensional showcase for Amanda Seyfried, Seven Veils dives from the rafters to make an uneven but ultimately insightful landing.

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Sergio Burstein Los Angeles Times Although the story does not have a completely successful rhythm... there is no choice but to surrender to the character of Jeanine, brilliantly played by Seyfried. [Full review in Spanish] Mar 11, 2025 Full Review Jourdain Searles RogerEbert.com Egoyan has always delved right into fraught familial ties without shying away from ugliness, and "Seven Veils" is perhaps his most overt exploration of familial trauma. Rated: 2.5/4 Mar 10, 2025 Full Review Maxwell Rabb Chicago Reader Instead of sharpening its blades on the operatic chaos radiating from its main character, the film loses its edge, veering into an overwrought territory that ultimately diminishes its finale. Mar 8, 2025 Full Review Carla Hay Culture Mix Not all of the elements work in how Seven Veils draws parallels between an avant-garde production of the opera Salome and a theater director's reckoning with her own troubled past. Amanda Seyfried's gripping performance lifts the film above mediocrity. May 6, 2025 Full Review David Bax Battleship Pretension Seven Veils might be one of the definitive statements on the how and, more intriguingly, the why of directing. Apr 12, 2025 Full Review Whang Yee Ling The Straits Times (Singapore) Seyfried brings operatic ardour to a layered tale of female desire and sexual violence. Rated: 4/5 Apr 10, 2025 Full Review Read all reviews

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Darryl It was ok the ending was not good 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 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 out of 5 stars 03/08/25 Full Review Andrei D Just weird enough and Amanda is committed to making it as uncomfortable and mysterious as possible Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 06/29/25 Full Review hip C DECEPTION Bit of an arts buffet this, perhaps too much so. Atom Egoyan takes the Biblical tale of Salome and John The Baptist, turned an Oscar Wilde play, turned a Richard Strauss opera, turned an Atom Egoyan staging of said opera, into a fictionalized staging of said opera in film form. Whew. Amanda Seyfried, she of the crazy wide eyes, seems miscast as the dictatorial director. She looks young enough to play her daughter in some unsettling childhood flashbacks. A thing she does not do. Opera is not a young man's game, neither a young woman's, and though Seyfried handles this challenging role superbly, accepting her in the ruthless role is a stretch. As usual, Egoyan weaves a tangled web of interleaved plot lines, some juicy, some not so much. Power dynamics, sex clashes, hidden histories, career manipulations, bubble up in the troubled staging of Salome. Lots of backstage drama, and plenty of on stage as well. Egoyan cranks out an excellent class in opera directing, and Seyfried shines in fighting to bring her unorthodox version to fruition. The opera looks great, especially the beautiful shadow sequences, and perhaps the stage should have been the focus rather than all the happenings behind the scenes. Almost everything comes together in the end, but there are a few too many unresolved plot lines for an audience to ponder over. A fine attempt, but when all is sung and done, it ends about as well as it did for John The Baptist. - hipCRANK Rated 3 out of 5 stars 06/03/25 Full Review John K Afternoon matinee in Canada at a theatre with terrific sound. Still tingling. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 05/09/25 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis After years away, theater director Jeanine (Academy Award® nominee Amanda Seyfried) re-enters the opera world to stage her former mentor's most famous work. Haunted by dark and disturbing memories from her past, Jeanine allows her repressed trauma to color the present as her personal and professional lives begin to unravel.
Director
Atom Egoyan
Producer
Niv Fichman, Atom Egoyan, Simone Urdl, Kevin Krikst, Fraser Ash
Screenwriter
Atom Egoyan
Distributor
XYZ Films / Variance Films
Production Co
Canadian Opera Company, Cinetic Media, Ego Film Arts, Rhombus Media, XYZfilms, Téléfilm Canada, IPR.VC
Genre
Drama, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Mar 7, 2025, Limited
Release Date (Streaming)
Apr 8, 2025
Box Office (Gross USA)
$111.7K
Runtime
1h 47m
Aspect Ratio
Digital 2.39:1
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