Amanda Seyfried is Haunted by Opera in ‘Seven Veils’ Official Trailer
by Alex Billington
January 21, 2025
Source: YouTube
“I’ve been asked to make this personal, so I am.” XYZ Films has revealed an official trailer for Seven Veils, the latest feature from Egyptian-Canadian filmmaker Atom Egoyan (he made Guest of Honour before this). The film originally premiered at the 2023 Toronto Film Festival a few years back but is only now getting a proper theatrical release – starting in March 2025 in a few months. An earnest theater director has the task of remounting her former mentor’s most famous work, the opera Salome. Some disturbing memories from her past will allow her repressed trauma to color the present. Atom Egoyan directed the opera, Salome, in 1996, the first opera in what would be many to come over his career. Most recently, the acclaimed filmmaker was interested in exploring what the production of Salome would mean in our current culture. That led him to write the script for Seven Veils, about a remount of Salome that he filmed at the same time the opera was on stage, using the opera singers from Salome in the film. Amanda Seyfried stars as Jeanine, along with Rebecca Liddiard, Douglas Smith, Mark O’Brien, Vinessa Antoine, Ambur Braid, and Michael Kupfer-Radecky. This looks quite compelling – mostly to see Seyfried take on this complex, dynamic role.
Here’s the official US trailer for Atom Egoyan’s film Seven Veils, direct from XYZ’s YouTube:
“Salome is a production I’ve done a number of times so when I knew that the Canadian Opera Company was remounting it, I thought this would be an ideal time to fuse the opera singers I knew they had booked with the script I had written. I wanted to explore how the themes of Salome could weave with the story of remounting this particular production. It’s not really an opera movie, it’s just using the world of the opera as a workplace like any workplace. We see the characters as they float in and out of scenes dealing with the preparation of the opera.” –Writer/director Atom Egoyan
After years away, theater director Jeanine (starring Amanda Seyfried) re-enters the opera world to stage her former mentor’s most famous work. Haunted by dark & disturbing memories from her past, Jeanine allows her repressed trauma to color the present as her personal and professional lives begin to unravel. Renowned director Atom Egoyan reunites with Seyfried in this visually stunning, propulsive work, filmed on location during the staging of Egoyan’s acclaimed production of “Salome.” Seven Veils is directed by prominent Egyptian-Canadian filmmaker Atom Egoyan, director of many other films: Next of Kin, Family Viewing, The Adjuster, The Sweet Hereafter, Felicia’s Journey, Where the Truth Lies, Adoration, Chloe, Devil’s Knot, The Captive, and Guest of Honour previously. It’s produced by Fraser Ash, Atom Egoyan, Niv Fichman, Kevin Krikst, Simone Urdl. This initially premiered at the 2023 Toronto Film Festival a few years ago. XYZ Films will debut Egoyan’s Seven Veils film in US theaters starting March 7th, 2025 coming soon.
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