Seven Veils este o noua drama regizata de Atom Egoyan, cu Amanda Seyfried in rolul principal, care va avea premiera pe 7 martie 2025.
Filmul spune povestea unui director de teatru, Jeanine (Amanda Seyfried), care reintra in lumea operei dupa mai multi ani, pentru a pune in scena cea mai faimoasa opera a fostului ei mentor. Bantuita de amintiri intunecate si tulburatoare din trecut, Jeanine va permite traumei ei reprimate sa contureze prezentul, in timp ce viata ei persoanala si profesionala incep sa se destrame. Filmarile au avut loc in timpul productiei celebrei piese de teatru ale lui Egoyan, Salome.
„I’ve been involved with opera for a number of years, doing it parallel to my film work. I always wondered if there was a way to bring the two worlds together. Salome is a production I’ve done a number of times so when I knew that the Canadian Opera Company was remounting it, I thought this would be an ideal time to fuse the opera singers I knew they had booked with the script I had written. I wanted to explore how the themes of Salome could weave with the story of remounting this particular production. It’s not really an opera movie, it’s just using the world of the opera as a workplace like any workplace. We see the characters as they float in and out of scenes dealing with the preparation of the opera,” a declarat Atom Egoyan.
Rebecca Liddiard, Douglas Smith, Mark O’Brien, Vinessa Antoine, Ambur Braid si Michael Kupfer-Radecky intregesc distributia filmului, produs de Egoyan, Niv Fichman, Simone Urdl, Kevin Krikst si Fraser Ash.
„The story of Salome has such a rich inheritance. It comes to us from the Bible and then became the basis of this extraordinary play that Oscar Wilde wrote that explodes with language of people describing things they can’t have. The composer Richard Strauss saw a production of this unique play and was seized by the idea of making it the basis of the libretto. He found a way of harnessing what Oscar Wilde did with his words with truly revolutionary music. It was exciting to bring that energy into this moment and all the issues that are floating around our space, and seeing how these characters are navigating the dynamics of creativity, desire and power,” adauga Egoyan.
