TORONTO — Director Atom Egoyan is ready to premiere his movie “Seven Veils” tonight, in a singular collaboration with the Canadian Opera Company and the Toronto International Film Festival.
The particular “avant-premiere” will happen at Toronto’s Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, with the official TIFF screening happening Sunday on the Princess of Wales Theatre.
“Seven Veils,” starring Amanda Seyfried, tells the story of a theatre director whose world unwinds as she reworks a manufacturing of “Salome” after the dying of her mentor, who was beforehand in cost.
Egoyan directed “Salome” for the Canadian Opera Company in 1996. It depicts the beheading of John the Baptist on the behest of Jewish princess Salome.
Egoyan has stated the work carries deeply private themes about hid wounds, which have additionally been a staple in a number of of his early works.
However, Seyfried gained’t be strolling the purple carpet because of an ongoing strike by members of the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio.
The U.S. actress stated in a social media submit that regardless that “Seven Veils” acquired a “waiver” from U.S. actors union, it “doesn’t feel right” to put it on the market at TIFF throughout the strike.
