Seven Veils

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Darryl Mar 11 It was ok the ending was not good See more Will Mar 10 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. See more Remy Mar 8 Didn't enjoy much. Story about a bipolar theater director was boring. See more revolver.0 8 @Revolver08 Sep 8 good setting with too much narrativity all over See more Andrei D Jun 29 Just weird enough and Amanda is committed to making it as uncomfortable and mysterious as possible See more hip C @hipCRANK Jun 3 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 See more Read all reviews

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