Amanda Seyfried reunites with director Atom Egoyan for Seven Veils, a drama that had its world premiere last year at the Toronto International Film Festival. After a lengthy wait, the film is finally arriving in theaters this March and a new trailer has been released. Seyfried and Egoyan previously worked together on the erotic thriller, Chloe, but this looks like something altogether different.
As seen in the Seven Veils trailer, Seyfried plays a opera director who returns to work to oversee a new production of Richard Strauss’ 1905 opera Salome as a tribute to her late mentor. But as she goes further into it, her repressed traumas begin to resurface, blurring art with reality. The film’s title comes from the play’s infamously erotic “Dance of the Seven Veils”, which concludes with the beheading of John the Baptist.
The film is directed and written by Egoyan, his first since 2019’s Guest of Honour. Egoyan is best known for directing Exotica, The Sweet Hereafter, and Devil’s Knot. He shot Seven Veils while staging his own production of Salome.
Also in the cast are Rebecca Liddiard, Douglas Smith, Mark O’Brien, Vinessa Antoine, Ambur Braid, and Michael Kupfer-Radecky.
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 (Exotica, The Sweet Hereafter) reunites with Seyfried in this visually stunning, propulsive work, filmed on location during the staging of Egoyan’s acclaimed production of “Salome.”
Seven Veils opens in theaters on March 7th.