Seven Veils premieres at TIFF on September 10.
Summary Atom Egoyan's Seven Veils is a unique theatrical experience tonight, blending the art forms of cinema and opera while also blurring the lines of reality and fiction. The movie was made in collaboration with the Canadian Opera Company — which is where Egoyan first mounted the opera Salome, now at the centerpiece of the film's story.
And when it was scheduled to be remounted this year, earlier this year, I just felt like it was such a provocative interpretation of the opera that I wasn't sure where it would sit today. It was pretty radical when it was presented in 1996, but a lot of the images in it needed some sort of contextualization because we are living in a different time. There are a lot of trigger warnings in this production, and we weren't thinking of that over 30 years ago.
That kind of puts her into this very heightened emotional place and combined with what's going on with her family and what's happening with various relationships swirling around her, she is negotiating this really delicate line that begins to affect her sanity, I would say. The way that her childhood trauma was literally danced around what I thought was really fascinating. What made you decide to approach those scenes with her father through the lens of his camera and through these dance scenes that are replicated?
Whether these actors or singers are not getting what she's saying, or whether there's something in the actual construction of this concept that is not cogent, she's in a mess. The trauma she's dealing with has to do with the trauma that's being generated through her reflection of something that she saw as a child, as a young adult, and that she's now seeing in midlife.
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