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Atom Egoyan’s “Seven Veils” (2025), starring Amanda Seyfried, is filled with rich subtext. You can pick apart almost any scene or line of dialogue and find its relevance to its overarching themes. The film offers a reenactment of Salome, a classic opera, through the eyes of a theater director, played by Seyfried. However, instead of relying on a singular interpretation of its narrative, it focuses on the nature of reinterpretation and uses it to analyze the interpersonal dynamics at play during the opera production. It builds gradually like an elaborate fable to address how personal traumas affect their understanding of the art. At its end, it takes Seyfriend’s character toward a moment of catharsis, which digs far deeper than what meets the eye.

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“Seven Veils,” written and directed by Atom Egoyan, follows Jeanine, a theater director, who gets assigned to remount her mentor Charles’ opera,...

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Directed and written by Atom Egoyan, Seven Veils stemmed from his personal experience as a theatre practitioner when he had to remount his interpretation of Richard Strauss’ ‘Salome’ with the Canadian Opera Company. He felt a sense of limitation in the process, and that was when he created the character of Jeanine, someone who felt a deep personal connection to the story of Salome. Theatre director Jeanine had been invited to remount a production of Salome. She shared a special relationship with her late mentor, Charles, and he wanted her to direct the opera in his absence. The play, written by Oscar Wilde, is centered around Salome, the daughter of Herod II and Princess Herodias. What makes the Biblical tale unforgettable is that Salome demanded John the Baptist’s head to kiss his lips after he refused to acknowledge her and romantically engage with her because he believed she was a fallen woman,...

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A Russian nesting doll of trauma, meta-text, and workplace politicking, “Seven Veils” stretches the boundaries of its medium to tell a story that hovers between several different thematic and narrative levels. An opera inside a movie that is a synthesis of in-universe history and abuse, the film uses “Salome” as a launching pad to explore what it means to grapple with trauma and its enduring legacy. As a bonus, it is also a sneaky good “office” drama, one that explores the fluid and complicated nature of professional relationships, obligations, and misconduct.

Continue reading ‘Seven Veils’ Review: Amanda Seyfried & Atom Egoyan Reteam for Bracing Exploration Of Trauma Via Some Opera & Meta-Text at The Playlist.

Seven Veils is a film about an opera. It’s more than that, however. It’s the story of two young women dealing with their trauma through opera. It’s also the story of male abuse in its different forms and how that physically and metaphorically manifests itself in the lives of the women who receive the abuse. Writer/director Atom Egoyan, through the lens of opera, directs a unique film where nothing is quite what it seems, leading Amanda Seyfried in her excellent performance through something that often feels like it’s not grounded while also not being committed to being fully mystical.

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Seven Veils opens on a brooding one-shot of Jeanine (Seyfried) walking around an opera building at night. An immediate aura of mystery is sustained by a slow violin. It’s clear that something is wrong, or at least will be wrong. This is...

Beauty and trauma collide in Canadian filmmaker Atom Egoyan's Seven Veils, which made its world premiere at the 2023 edition of the Toronto International Film Festival. Starring Amanda Seyfried, the film marks a reunion between her and Egoyan, more than 15 years since their first collaboration, Chloe. In fact, Chloe and Seven Veils make for an interesting double feature: shot and set in Toronto, both films examine the dark recesses of human psychology and see Seyfried playing women navigating hidden truths about themselves.

In Seven Veils, Seyfried is Jeanine, a theater director who has been hired to remount a production of Salome for the renowned Canadian Opera Company to honor the death of its creator, Charlie (who was once Jeanine's mentor and more). Management wants the production to be exactly as Charlie originally directed it, but Jeanine is adamant in making changes that are, as she puts it, "small but meaningful.

While we wait for that Jennifer’s Body sequel that seems to be taking shape, Amanda Seyfried returns to the screen in director Atom Egoyan’s Seven Veils this coming weekend.

Seven Veils will be released in select theaters nationwide on March 7, 2025.

Amanda Seyfried stars in the upcoming film alongside Rebecca Liddiard, Douglas Smith, Mark O’Brien, Vinessa Antoine, Ambur Braid, and Michael Kupfer-Radecky.

In Seven Veils, “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.”

XYZ Films previews, “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. Egoyan directed the opera,...

Atom Egoyan’s Seven Veils concerns the return of the repressed against the backdrop of Canadian modern life. Though Egoyan’s eerie and uncanny films rarely embrace outright surrealist logic, conventionalities of plot, dialogue, and structure tend to take secondary importance to more cerebral musings on the primal lusts, fears, and compulsions of the human psyche and culture as byproduct of those violent internal forces. It’s an unabashedly intellectual bent that the filmmaker sometimes pursues at the cost of dramatic legibility.

Seven Veils is a metatextual hall of mirrors informed by Egoyan’s theater production of Richard Strauss’s opera Salome, which he revived in 2023 after previous runs in 1996 and 2002, and the film uses sets, footage, and personnel from that production. Jeanine (Amanda Seyfried), an ambitious opera director taking over the production of Salome from her late mentor and lover, sees the opera’s sordid narrative of soiled innocence,...

More than a decade after working together on the erotic thriller Chloe, Amanda Seyfried and director Atom Egoyan have reteamed for an “opera drama” / “meditative thriller” called Seven Veils, which XYZ Films and Variance will be bringing to theatres in the United States on March 7th. Along with the release date announcement comes the unveiling of a trailer, which can be viewed in the embed above.

Seven Veils sees Seyfried taking on the role of Jeanine, “a theatre director who is dealing with repressed trauma as she prepares to mount a production of the opera Salome.” Here’s the synopsis: Jeanine re-enters the opera world after several years away 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. Deadline notes that the movie...

‘Seven Veils’ is a 2023 Canadian drama directed by Atom Egoyan. It follows Jeanine, played by Amanda Seyfried, a theater director struggling with past trauma while preparing for a production of the opera ‘Salome.’

The film also stars Rebecca Liddiard, Douglas Smith, Mark O’Brien, and Vinessa Antoine. Other cast members include Michael Kupfer-Radecky, Ambur Braid, and Maia Jae Bastidas.

The movie premiered at the 2023 Toronto International Film Festival on September 10, 2023. The film was also featured in other festivals, including the 2023 Cinéfest Sudbury International Film Festival, Atlantic International Film Festival, Vancouver International Film Festival, Festival du Nouveau Cinéma in Montreal, and the 2024 Victoria Film Festival. So if you are an avid festival-goer this is most likely last year’s news for you.

For general audiences however, the movie releases in theaters on March 7th, and as we are slowly gearing up for the release of the movie, the trailer has been released...

Emmy-winning actress Amanda Seyfried will headline “Seven Veils,” a new drama that brings together the worlds of opera and film, hitting U.S. theaters on March 7, 2025. The film, distributed by XYZ Films and Variance, has already earned strong reviews with a 79% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

Director Atom Egoyan, known for his Oscar-nominated work, crafts a story about Jeanine (Seyfried), a theater director returning to stage her former mentor’s opera production. As she works on the show, hidden traumas from her past begin to surface, threatening both her work and personal life.

The film takes an unusual approach to storytelling by weaving its narrative around Richard Strauss’s opera “Salome.” Egoyan, who has directed the opera multiple times on stage, filmed during actual performances by the Canadian Opera Company, incorporating professional opera singers into the cast.

“I’ve been involved with opera for a number of years, doing it parallel to my film work,...

"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...

XYZ Films and Variance Films have set a March 7, 2025 theatrical release for Seven Veils starring Oscar nominee Amanda Seyfried (Mank). The drama reunites Seyfried with writer/director Atom Egoyan. The pair previously worked together on 2009’s Chloe with Julianne Moore, Liam Neeson, and Max Thieriot.

In addition to Seyfried, the film stars Rebecca Liddiard, Douglas Smith, Mark O’Brien, Vinessa Antoine, Ambur Braid, and Michael Kupfer-Radecky. Seven Veils debuted at the 2023 Toronto International Film Festival and screened at the 2024 Berlin International Film Festival.

“After years away, theater director Jeanine (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,” reads the official synopsis.

In 1996, Atom Egoyan directed the opera, Salome and has wanted to blend the world of opera and film for years.

Following its premiere back at the 2023 Toronto International Film Festival, Atom Egoyan’s latest film Seven Veils is finally getting a U.S. release. The Amanda Seyfried-led thriller set behind the scenes of the opera world will open on March 7 via XYZ Films and Variance and now the new trailer has arrived.

Here’s the 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. 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.'”

Ethan Vestby said in his TIFF review, “You have to hand it to Atom Egoyan:...

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In this film, we follow Andres (Perry Dizon), an art scholar trying to close his long overdue sabbatical so he can write his book. But instead of spending it in his studies, he spent his long-awaited leave trying to recover from a case of alcoholic amnesia. Andres is being haunted by a mysterious feminine figure the moment he falls ill.

Seven Veils.Following the critical and commercial success of Exotica (1994)—Atom Egoyan’s erotic thriller about a tax auditor who frequents a Toronto strip club for a particular dancer—the Canadian Opera Company approached the director to adapt Richard Strauss’s Salome, first performed in 1905,for their upcoming season. There were notable similarities between the structures of sexual pleasure in John the Baptist’s decapitation and the nocturnal sleaze of nightclub culture: intemperate gawking by paternal figures, the aesthetics of high-risk environments, and a figurative and literal unclothing. The production emerged at an especially vulnerable time for Toronto sex workers, who were experiencing high rates of violence and targeted homicide. Egoyan’s production was a suitably macabre, postmodern spin on both the Bible story and Oscar Wilde’s one-act tragedy, which inspired Strauss’s opera. The Judean palace was swapped for a viridescent sanatorium on a steeply angled stage, with...

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Qumra master Atom Egoyan has expressed his desire for a new “wave” of Armenian filmmakers and encouraged international projects to consider the region for post-production.

Speaking to Screen following his Qumra masterclass at the Doha incubator, Egoyan – who is Canadian, born in Egypt and of Armenian heritage – described Armenia as “an extraordinarily resilient, stubborn country” with “a rich cinema history”.

“I’m nothing but positive about the ability to make films in Armenia,” said Egoyan, who did acknowledge “political instability” following the Azerbaijani military offensive in the disputed Artsakh region on September 19 and 20 last year, which has been classified as...

Qumra master Atom Egoyan has expressed his desire for a new “wave” of Armenian filmmakers and encouraged international projects to consider the region for post-production.

Speaking to Screen following his Qumra masterclass at the Doha incubator, Egoyan – who is Canadian, born in Egypt and of Armenian heritage – described Armenia as “an extraordinarily resilient, stubborn country” with “a rich cinema history”.

“I’m nothing but positive about the ability to make films in Armenia,” said Egoyan, who did acknowledge “political instability” following the Azerbaijani military offensive in the disputed Artsakh region on September 19 and 20 last year, which has been classified as...

Qumra master Atom Egoyan has expressed his desire for a new “wave” of Armenian filmmakers; and encouraged international projects to consider the region for post-production.

Speaking to Screen following his Qumra masterclass at the Doha incubator, Egoyan – who is Canadian, born in Egypt and of Armenian heritage – described Armenia as “an extraordinarily resilient, stubborn country” with “a rich cinema history”.

“I’m nothing but positive about the ability to make films in Armenia,” said Egoyan, who did acknowledge “political instability” following the Azerbaijani military offensive in the disputed Artsakh region on September 19 and 20 last year, which has been classified as...

Atom Egoyan has revealed that he was so traumatized by the negative reception to his Ryan Reynolds-starring thriller The Captive at the Cannes Film Festival that he will never return again with a film.

The pedophilia thriller, starring Reynolds as a man dealing with the disappearance of his nine-year-old daughter, was widely panned by the Cannes critics corps when it world premiered in competition in 2014.

“It was actually the worst reviewed film that I ever did. We should never have taken it to Cannes,” the Canadian-Armenian director told a masterclass at the Doha Film Institute’s Qumra meeting in Qatar on Wednesday.

“It got this really crazy reception. It was in competition on the Friday night. I haven’t been to Cannes since because I just don’t ever want to come back to what we had that night. The last couple of films, we showed in Venice or Berlin.

After an early screening at last year’s Toronto Film Festival, art-imitates-life movie Seven Veils starring Amanda Seyfried (The Dropout) has released a new image following the announcement that the movie will integrate the 2024 Berlin Film Festival lineup. The story centers around a director (Seyfried) who is tasked with putting together an opera revival of Richard Strauss’s one-act Salome.

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Johnny Depp is gearing up for his latest production ‘Modi’, which will also star Italian star Luisa Ranieri and Al Pacino. Directed by Depp, the movie has begun its shooting in Budapest, Hungary.

‘Modi’ marks ‘The Pirates of the Caribbean’ actor’s second film where he is making a return to the director’s chair 25 years after ‘The Brave’, in which the actor also starred alongside Marlon Brando, ‘Variety’ reported.

Depp most recently starred as Louis Xv in Maïwenn’s ‘Jeanne Du Barry’, marking his first acting role since his 2022 defamation trial against ex-wife Amber Heard, which had caused a media frenzy.

The long-gestating picture is based on Dennis McIntyre’s play of the same name which has been adapted for screen by Jerzy and Mary Kromolowski.

‘Modì’ takes place in war-torn Paris during World War I over the course of 48 turbulent hours, according to the film’s provided synopsis.

Amanda Seyfried in Seven Veils

A resident of Toronto himself, Atom Egoyan has a longstanding relationship with the Toronto International Film Festival. It’s really the only place fitting for the première of his latest work, Seven Veils, a project which has been with him, in one form or another, for almost 30 years. A complex, multi-layered work, it stars Amanda Seyfried as the director of a production of Richard Strauss’ operatic take on Salome – more specifically, a restaging of a work by an esteemed director and her former lover, Charles, whose shadow hangs heavily over it, as does the fact that Charles drew on her own troubled past for inspiration. Further complications emerge from interactions between cast and crew members, most notably Johann (Michael Kupfer-Radecky), the exploitative leading man, and Clea (Rebecca Liddiard), the young woman from the props department charged with making a version of his head.

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Art and life are inextricably entangled in Atom Egoyan’s Seven Veils, a wildly ambitious, visually intoxicating reinterpretation of the Richard Strauss opera, Salome, that proves to possess almost as many layers as the Biblical princess’ famous dance routine.

After spending the past two and a half decades struggling to get his groove back following the 1997 success of The Sweet Hereafter, the filmmaker reconnects with his pet themes of alienation and family trauma, taking inspiration from his own revisionist staging of the opera, which he remounted for the Canadian Opera Company earlier this year. Using that production as a leap-off point, Egoyan interweaves a behind-the-scenes narrative involving a young director (Amanda Seyfried) who is challenged to put her own stamp on the oft-interpreted material while exorcising a number of personal demons in the process.

Handed its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival at the very same venue that...

Atom Egoyan knew Amanda Seyfried was a “remarkable young actress” when he first met her.The 63-year-old filmmaker has reunited with ‘Mamma Mia!’ star Amanda, 37, for new film ‘Seven Veils’ after initially working with her on the erotic thriller ‘Chloe’ in 2009 and recalled spotting her talent then.He told ScreenRant: "‘Chloe’ is in itself a remake, and it was a project that I was really excited to direct, but it wasn't my script. I didn't have the same freedoms that I have when I'm doing my own script and my own production. But I certainly had access the moment Amanda walked into that audition for ‘Chloe’. This is a remarkable young actress who just was so emotionally available.”For the upcoming movie, Amanda plays a theatre director who is dealing with repressed trauma as she prepares to mount a production of the opera ‘Salome’ and Atom went on to...

Atom Egoyan's Seven Veils is a unique theatrical experience blending cinema and opera while blurring the lines of reality and fiction. The movie explores his personal experience of remounting the opera Salome and incorporates elements of the protagonist's childhood trauma. Egoyan worked with Amanda Seyfried again after Chloe, and the film delves into themes of trauma, loss of sanity, and the complexities of love.

Atom Egoyan's Seven Veils is a unique theatrical experience tonight, blending the art forms of cinema and opera while also blurring the lines of reality and fiction. The movie was made in collaboration with the Canadian Opera Company — which is where Egoyan first mounted the opera Salome, now at the centerpiece of the film's story. Seven Veils is set to have an "avant-garde" performance at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 8 before its official world premiere on September 10.

Egyan wrote the screenplay and directed the movie,...

Amanda Seyfried won’t be attending the 2023 Toronto International Film Festival.

The actress took to Instagram over the weekend to reveal she wouldn’t be making an appearance at TIFF to promote her new movie “Seven Veils” despite being granted a waiver amid the ongoing Hollywood strikes.

Seyfried wrote, “I am So Proud of this movie and it hurts my heart not to stand next to the beautiful people who helped create this special film at our @tiff_net premiere next week.

“@sagaftra has given us a waiver to promote this fully, magically independent Canadian movie but it doesn’t feel right to head to the fest in light of the strike.”

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Amanda Seyfried won't be promoting her upcoming indie movie 'Seven Veils' amid the Hollywood strikes.The 37-year-old actress stars as Jeanine, a theatre director who is dealing with repressed trauma as she prepares to mount a production of the opera 'Salome' in Atom Egoyan's upcoming drama.And despite being given the go-ahead to promote the flick at the 2023 Toronto International Film Festival this week, Amanda doesn't feel "it's right" to do so until the actors and writers striking for better pay and conditions receive a "fair agreement".Announcing the decision on Instagram over the weekend, she wrote: “I am So Proud of this movie and it hurts my heart not to stand next to the beautiful people who helped create this special film at our @tiff_net premiere next week.”She continued: "@sagaftra has given us a wavier to promote this fully, magically independent Canadian movie but...

Amanda Seyfried has revealed that she will not be attending the world premiere of her film Seven Veils at the 2023 Toronto International Film Festival amid the historic dual Hollywood strikes.

The actress took to Instagram on Saturday to share her appreciation for the Atom Egoyan-directed movie, writing, “I am So Proud of this movie and it hurts my heart not to stand next to the beautiful people who helped create this special film at our @tiff_net premiere next week.”

Seyfried noted that while the film was given a “wavier” by SAG-AFTRA to “promote this fully, magically independent Canadian movie,” it still “doesn’t feel right to head to the fest in light of the strike.”

She added, “I can’t wait to show you all Seven Veils when the time is right (and we’ve come to a fair agreement for actors and writers).”

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Atom Egoyan will be returning to the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) to premiere his latest movie, “Seven Veils”.

“We are honoured to premiere Atom Egoyan’s extraordinary film at this year’s Festival,” said TIFF CEO Cameron Bailey in a statement. “Egoyan’s cinematic works are unmatched, and we’re excited to bring Seven Veils to our TIFF audiences and to the city of Toronto, his home.”

“Seven Veils” is Egoyan’s 18th film to premiere at TIFF.

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Amanda Seyfried (who previously worked with Egoyan in 2009’s “Chloe”) stars as Jeanine, an earnest theatre director tasked with remounting the opera “Salome”, the most famous production of her former mentor.

“Haunted by dark and disturbing memories from her past, Jeanine allows her repressed trauma to colour the present as she re-enters the opera world after so many years away,...

“Seven Veils,” a drama starring Amanda Seyfried, will have its world premiere at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival.

Atom Egoyan directed the movie, which also stars Rebecca Liddiard, Douglas Smith, Mark O’Brien and Vinessa Antoine. TIFF runs from Sept. 7-17, and the full lineup for the 48th edition will be released in August.

“We are honoured to premiere Atom Egoyan’s extraordinary film at this year’s festival,” said TIFF CEO Cameron Bailey. “Egoyan’s cinematic works are unmatched, and we’re excited to bring ‘Seven Veils’ to our TIFF audiences and to the city of Toronto, his home.”

In “Seven Veils,” Seyfried plays Jeanine, an earnest theater director tasked with remounting her former mentor’s most famous work, the opera “Salome.” According to the official logline, Jeanine, “haunted by dark and disturbing memories from her past, allows her repressed trauma to color the present as she re-enters...

TIFF has added the world premiere of Atom Egoyan’s Seven Veils to their 48th lineup. It’s the director’s 18th title to premiere at TIFF.

Egoyan here reteams with Seyfried after 2009’s Chloe. She plays Jeanine, an earnest theatre director tasked with remounting her former mentor’s most famous work, the opera Salome. Haunted by dark and disturbing memories from her past, Jeanine allows her repressed trauma to colour the present as she re-enters the opera world after so many years away. Egoyan first directed Salome for the Canadian Opera Company in 1996 and returned earlier this year to revive the production on stage.

The pic stars Amanda Seyfried with Rebecca Liddiard, Douglas Smith, Mark O’Brien, and Vinessa Antoine. Also featured are Ambur Braid as Salome and Michael Kupfer-Radecky as John the Baptist, who both starred in the Canadian Opera Company’s most recent production of Salome, also directed by Egoyan,...

Salome-inspired feature to debut on September 10.

Canadian auteur Atom Egoyan’s Seven Veils starring Amanda Seyfried will receive its world premiere at Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) on September 10.

The opera-inspired feature also stars Rebecca Liddiard, Douglas Smith, Mark O’Brien, and Vinessa Antoine, as well as Ambur Braid as Salome and Michael Kupfer-Radecky as John the Baptist.

Braid and Kupfer-Radecky both starred in the Canadian Opera Company’s most recent production of Salome, which Egoyan also directed after first directing the opera for the Company in 1996.

Seven Veils sees Egoyan reunite with his Chloe star Seyfried, who plays Jeanine,...

Canadian director Atom Egoyan is bringing his latest movie, Seven Veils, to the Toronto Film Festival for a world premiere, with Amanda Seyfried in the lead role as a tortured opera director.

Seyfried reteamed with her Chloe director Egoyan for the opera-themed drama where she plays Jeanine, a theatre director remounting her former mentor’s most famous work, an adaptation of the opera Salome from composer Richard Strauss, based on the play by Oscar Wilde. As Jeanine reenters the opera world after years away, she is haunted by dark and disturbing memories from her past as her repressed trauma colors the present.

Rebecca Liddiard, Douglas Smith, Mark O’Brien and Vinessa Antoine also star in Seven Veils, which was shot in and around Toronto earlier this year. Should the ongoing strikes by the WGA and SAG-AFTRA continue into the fall, American actors will be barred from publicizing any big-ticket studio movies...

Toronto New Wave filmmaker Atom Egoyan has set a Toronto Film Festival world premiere for his newest feature, Seven Veils, reteaming him with Oscar nom Amanda Seyfried following their work together on the 2009 thriller Chloe.

Inspired by Egoyan’s experiences mounting the opera Salome for the Canadian Opera Company, both all the way back in 1996 and earlier this year, the film is set for a TIFF Special Presentation bow on Sunday, September 10, though it will first screen two days prior at the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts. The Avant-première, presented in partnership with the Canadian Opera Company, will take place at 7 p.m.

Joining Seven Veils in making a TIFF world premiere, as previously announced, is Taika Waititi’s soccer comedy Next Goal Wins with Michael Fassbender. Further details on the festival schedule will be released next month.

A two-time Academy Award nominee, Egoyan’s 18th feature set...

Atom Egoyan’s “Seven Veils” will have its world premiere at the 2023 Toronto International Film Festival, TIFF organizers announced on Wednesday. The Canadian filmmaker of “Exotica,” “The Sweet Hereafter” and “Chloe” will present his film at the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts in a special Sept. 8 “Avant-premiere” screening held in partnership with the Canadian Opera Company.

“Seven Veils” stars Amanda Seyfried and was inspired by Egoyan’s recent experience with a revival of his 1996 version of the opera “Salome,” which he directed for the first time in 1996 for the Canadian Opera Company. In the film, Seyfried plays a theater director who is haunted by the past while mounting a version of that opera, the most famous work of her mentor.

Ambur Braid and Michael Kupfer-Radecky, who appeared Egoyan’s recent staging of the opera, will reprise their roles of Salome and John the Baptist in the film. After the Avant-premiere screening on Sept.

The Toronto International Film Festival has set the world premiere for a new film from one of Canada’s own, director Atom Egoyan.

Egoyan helms “Seven Veils,” which stars his “Chloe” actress Amanda Seyfried. The thriller will debut with a special screening, in partnership with the Canadian Opera Company, at the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts on September 8 before premiering in earnest as part of the festival’s Special Presentation lineup on September 10.

Egoyan’s films have long played at his home festival, so the film’s inclusion is no surprise. And its announcement arrives as TIFF may have to get creative about world premieres amid the ongoing SAG-AFTRA strike that forbids union actors from promoting their work. That means less starry world premieres, and filmmakers instead doing the heavy lifting at conferences and on press lines. TIFF did not reveal in the “Seven Veils” announcement what talent...

Exclusive: Douglas Smith (Big Little Lies), Mark O’Brien (Arrival), Rebecca Liddiard (Alias Grace) and Vinessa Antoine have been cast opposite Amanda Seyfried (The Dropout) in Seven Veils, the new feature from filmmaker Atom Egoyan (The Sweet Hereafter).

The project wrapped principal photography in Toronto last week.

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

Smith and Seyfried previously worked together on HBO series Big Love, playing siblings Ben and Sarah Henrickson.

Pic is written and directed by Egoyan, who also produces alongside Niv Fichman (Enemy), Simone Urdl (The Captive), Fraser Ash (BlackBerry) and Kevin Krikst (BlackBerry).

The project is a...

Tony Sokol May 14, 2019

Witches Council elder Methuselah doesn't mind if you smoke and doesn't care if you burn.

Chilling Adventures of Sabrina hosts a somewhat less than venerated group of wise wizards in season 2, albeit a reluctant one. Hilda Spellman summons the Dishonorable Council of Witches to deal with a High Priest who has gone off his rocker, honestly. Father Blackwood is changing the tenets of the Church of Night, which he re-anti-christened the Church of Judas, and declared intentions to break away from the Churches of Darkness. The council, which previously bound Sabrina's warlock cousin Ambrose to the Spellman house for hundreds of years, is headed by Father Methuselah.

Methuselah is played by William B. Davis, who besides being a sitting member of the Witches Council, played Carl Gerhard Bush Spender, better known as Cigarette Smoking Man, who was part of the State Department's secretive "Syndicate" which oversaw alien colonization on The X-Files.

Al Pacino seems to have a new lady in his life — one who is half his age.

The actor, 78, was photographed stepping out with Israeli actress Meital Dohan, 39, in West Hollywood, California, on Sunday while shopping for furniture at a Restoration Hardware store.

The former Weeds actress dressed up in a bright yellow skirt and a patterned top which she paired with pink sunglasses while Pacino was more subdued in an all-black ensemble.

Reps for both stars did not immediately respond to People’s request for comment.

The duo has been spending some time together on dinner dates over the last few months,...

Love’s Labours Found: Pacino’s Wilde Meditations at Long Last Find Life

Oscar Wilde’s 1891 tragedy Salome (originally written in French) has generated countless resurrections since its inception. Most prominently, Richard Strauss’ famed 1905 opera remains a theatrical staple. But there’s a long cinematic romance with the play, including Russian stage and film star Nazimova in the infamous 1922 version directed by Charles Bryant (which reputedly was assembled by an all Lgbtq cast and crew in its entirety). Other bright spots include Ken Russell’s version, who re-fashioned it for his infamous 1988 title Salome’s Last Dance; and Julianne Moore does a…...