Seven Veils

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Seven Veils

2025

1h 47m

Drama

Mystery & Thriller

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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.

Critics Consensus

One of director Atom Egoyan's most successful efforts in years and a multidimensional showcase for Amanda Seyfried, Seven Veils dives from the rafters to make an uneven but ultimately insightful landing.

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Sergio Burstein

Los Angeles Times

03/11/2025

Although the story does not have a completely successful rhythm... there is no choice but to surrender to the character of Jeanine, brilliantly played by Seyfried. [Full review in Spanish]

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Jourdain Searles

RogerEbert.com

03/10/2025

2.5/4

Egoyan has always delved right into fraught familial ties without shying away from ugliness, and "Seven Veils" is perhaps his most overt exploration of familial trauma.

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Maxwell Rabb

Chicago Reader

03/08/2025

Instead of sharpening its blades on the operatic chaos radiating from its main character, the film loses its edge, veering into an overwrought territory that ultimately diminishes its finale.

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Javier Ocaña

El Pais (Spain)

Jul 11

With some brilliant ideas, but unable to find his way back, Egoyan seems trapped in his own obsessions, unable to find a new language or recover an old one. [Full review in Spanish]

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Carla Hay

Culture Mix

05/06/2025

Not all of the elements work in how Seven Veils draws parallels between an avant-garde production of the opera Salome and a theater director's reckoning with her own troubled past. Amanda Seyfried's gripping performance lifts the film above mediocrity.

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David Bax

Battleship Pretension

04/12/2025

Seven Veils might be one of the definitive statements on the how and, more intriguingly, the why of directing.

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Darryl

03/11/2025

It was ok the ending was not good

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Will

03/10/2025

Atom Egoyan uses his own blockbuster staging of Richard Strauss' "Salome" as the backdrop for a contemporary drama that struggles to entwine story threads about the creation of art, backstage politics, MeToo, sexual trauma and marriage anxiety. Alas, the results are a near-incoherent mess. Seyfried gives it her all, but the entire film is weighed down by multiple storylines that feel like bumper cars smashing into one another incessantly. Egoyan has every right to be proud of his brilliantly conceived 2023 production of "Salome," which looks like it would have made a better movie than this. Maybe if he had trimmed a few subplots from his script and better developed just one or two of them, he would have a stronger drama. Instead, he made a "multilayered" mess full of sound and fury, but signifying nothing.

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Remy

03/08/2025

Didn't enjoy much. Story about a bipolar theater director was boring.

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Cristian s

@cristiansj Jan 13

Flojita película dramática; dice mucho sin decir nada, pasa mucho sin pasar nada. Sin dudas la actuación de Amanda Seyfried es de lo mejorcito de todo el film.

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revolver.0 8

@Revolver08 Sep 8

good setting with too much narrativity all over

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Andrei D

@RT74856639 Jun 29

Just weird enough and Amanda is committed to making it as uncomfortable and mysterious as possible

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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.

Director: Atom Egoyan
Producer: Niv Fichman, Atom Egoyan, Simone Urdl, Kevin Krikst, Fraser Ash
Screenwriter: Atom Egoyan
Distributor: XYZ Films / Variance Films
Production Co: Canadian Opera Company, Cinetic Media, Ego Film Arts, Rhombus Media, XYZfilms, Téléfilm Canada, IPR.VC
Genre: Drama, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Mar 7, 2025, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Apr 8, 2025
Box Office (Gross USA): $111.7K
Runtime: 1h 47m
Aspect Ratio: Digital 2.39:1