Seven Veils

2023

Drama

12
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Certified Fresh 77% · 61 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 51% · 50 ratings
IMDb Rating 5.7/10 10 1122 1.1K

Plot summary

Jeanine, an earnest theatre director, has been given the task of remounting her former mentor’s most famous work, the opera Salome. Haunted by dark and disturbing memories from her past, she allows her repressed trauma to color the present as she re-enters the opera world after so many years away.

Director

Atom Egoyan Photo
Atom Egoyan

Top cast

Amanda Seyfried Photo
Amanda Seyfried as Jeanine
Maia Jae Bastidas Photo
Maia Jae Bastidas as Dimitra
Douglas Smith Photo
Douglas Smith as Luke
Maya Misaljevic Photo
Maya Misaljevic as Lizzie
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1006.63 MB
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English 2.0
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23.976 fps
1 hr 49 min
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2.02 GB
1920*800
English 5.1
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Subtitles us  fr  
23.976 fps
1 hr 49 min
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4.89 GB
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English 5.1
NR
Subtitles us  fr  
23.976 fps
1 hr 49 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by Boristhemoggy 6 / 10

An excellent story, but not for cinema.

Salome loves John the Baptist, who denies her. So she asks her father for John's head, that she can kiss him on the lips one time.It's an age old story and a good one, and I saw the play which was sublimely acted, although it's contemporary presentation took something away from it in my opinion. The opera also is brilliant, but modernised, something which I feel took something away from it.This version, filmed for cinema, is exceptional in showcasing the writing and directing talent of the writers and the director of the film, but is not really about Salome. It's about people, and their passion and intrigue and deceit. Diminutive Seyfried is a powerhouse in the part, but quite simply she is visually not matched to the role. Her acting skills are renowned, and indeed her singing, but this part in the arts demands a different character, like Gwendoline Christie, or Cate Blanchett. That's not a criticism of Seyfried, she is the sole reason I watched this film: it's a criticism of casting for exposure, instead of for the part.I struggled my way through this film in several sessions because frankly, it bored me, and the many prisms of human nature were lost a little in the heavy and sometimes conceptual dialogue.I would never say I enjoyed this film: I enjoyed Seyfried playing a magnificent part, but I also enjoyed her in Mamma Mia: she does not need a film like this to shine. I believe no-one needs a film like this, It may suit a trainee theatre actor rather than a cinema audience, but this is art rather than cinema. For that reason I only give this a score of 6, and 99% of that score is for Seyfried's acting.
Reviewed by danieljfarthing 5 / 10

Artsy dark-drama that may only really appeal to fans of the opera 'Salome'

In dark-drama "Seven Veils" Amanda Seyfried (as strong as ever) directs a remounting of the opera 'Salome' that her now deceased mentor & lover originally directed. In rhythm with the production (involving the likes of Rebecca Liddiard (good), Lanette Ware, Vanessa Antoine, and actual opera stars Ambur Braid & Michael Kupfer-Radecky) Seyfried evokes emotions from her own childhood trauma and current troubled marriage. Experienced writer / director Atom Egoyan clearly immersed himself in Richard Strauss' opera (and Oscar Wilde's play it was based on) which fans of may really enjoy - but for others this may be too 'artsy' to entertain.
Reviewed by js-66130 6 / 10

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 plotlines, 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 too many unresolved plot lines left 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.
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