Atom Egoyan on shaping his most personal story yet
On a sun-drenched August morning, filmmaker Atom Egoyan stands in the silence of a dim post-production room. With his forthcoming feature “Seven Veils” casting rays from the theatre screen before him, he tweaks the final cut, perfecting what he can before its Toronto International Film Festival debut.
Completing this film means a lot to Egoyan. During an interview at a downtown Toronto studio, he’s explaining the roots of his passion for the project in between providing audio insert instructions to his team, and fielding incoming business calls in the pre-TIFF rush. “The opera is the main work environment in my film,” says Egoyan. “It’s an environment I know really well.”
“When I was given the chance to remount the play, I knew that I couldn’t present that same version – it wasn’t responsible in today’s culture, so in a way, I chronicled this process through Amanda’s character using the themes of that play which continue to haunt me. “I gradually came to discover that she was being abused by her father,” says Egoyan of his first love. “No one talked about it and she certainly wasn’t talking or trying to think about it.
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