Seven Veils
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.
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"The most impressive single thing about this Atom Egoyan film must be the setting, which draws heavily from the recent, real-life Canadian Opera Company production of Richard Strauss's opera 'Salome'. Even a few of the genuine singers are used in supportive roles. The plotline that is embedded within that atmosphere is, however, a fairly conventional one: the young stage director (Amanda Seyfried) must face two big ghosts from her past who are (a) her father and (b) her mentor, himself a legendary director. We;ve seen variations on that many times before. Other things getting in ..."
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Atom Egoyan was inspired to make this film when he was set to re-mount his interpretation of Richard Strauss's 'Salome' with the Canadian Opera Company. According to Egoyan himself, he wasn't able to make as many changes or edits as he liked, and so he began to imagine how another person might reinterpret the opera, which led to him creating the character Jeanine.
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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.