Seven Veils

A chilly, introspective plunge into an artist's haunted mind, where staging an opera blurs with reliving old wounds.

Directed by

Atom Egoyan

Genres

Drama

Starring

Amanda Seyfried, Rebecca Liddiard, Douglas Smith

Overview

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.

How it feels

Dark, melancholic, tense and eerie. Slow-burning and demanding.

About

Trauma, memory, art, identity

Content

Mild violence, sexual content and language. No gore.

Note

Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown

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