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Movie Review: SEVEN VEILS (2023)
A thrill-less thriller from Atom Egoyan
SEVEN VEILS (2023) Atom Egoyan. Writer: Atom Egoyan / Photographer: Paul Sarossy (2.35:1) / Design: Phillip Barker / Editor: David Wharnsby / Music: Mychael Danna / Cast: Amanda Seyfried, Douglas Smith, Rebecca Liddiard, Mark O'Brien, Vinessa Antoine, Maia Jae Bastidas, Lanette Ware, and Ryan McDonald / Distributor: Variance Films / Not Rated / Length: 107 mins.
A frigid exercise in psychological horror, the latest from Atom Egoyan (Calendar, The Sweet Hereafter, Adoration) is a meticulously appointed lead balloon that offers no point of entry and even less chance of escape. Amanda Seyfried stars as a stage director unable to resist taking a hacksaw to her long-suppressed suffering, then allowing it to bleed over into her latest production, a remounting of the opera Salome. Alas, everything Egoyan had to say on the subject of art imitating life was presented in a more coherent form in Where the Truth Lies. The introductory set-up is a lyrical medley of Egoyan imagery: rooms conjointly merge, images mesh together and reality and illusion blur into one. But even with Seyfried playing to the rafters, the film never lives up to the promise of its first five minutes. Cinematographer Paul Sarossy and composer Mychael Danna, both Egoyan mainstays, contribute to the overall mood of stable uncertainty, but it’s hard to latch onto a psychological thriller that falls short on its promise to thrill. 2023. *
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Movie Review: SEVEN VEILS (2023)
A thrill-less thriller from Atom Egoyan
Movie Review: SEVEN VEILS (2023)
A thrill-less thriller from Atom Egoyan
SEVEN VEILS (2023) Atom Egoyan. Writer: Atom Egoyan / Photographer: Paul Sarossy (2.35:1) / Design: Phillip Barker / Editor: David Wharnsby / Music: Mychael Danna / Cast: Amanda Seyfried, Douglas Smith, Rebecca Liddiard, Mark O'Brien, Vinessa Antoine, Maia Jae Bastidas, Lanette Ware, and Ryan McDonald / Distributor: Variance Films / Not Rated / Length: 107 mins.
A frigid exercise in psychological horror, the latest from Atom Egoyan (Calendar, The Sweet Hereafter, Adoration) is a meticulously appointed lead balloon that offers no point of entry and even less chance of escape. Amanda Seyfried stars as a stage director unable to resist taking a hacksaw to her long-suppressed suffering, then allowing it to bleed over into her latest production, a remounting of the opera Salome. Alas, everything Egoyan had to say on the subject of art imitating life was presented in a more coherent form in Where the Truth Lies. The introductory set-up is a lyrical medley of Egoyan imagery: rooms conjointly merge, images mesh together and reality and illusion blur into one. But even with Seyfried playing to the rafters, the film never lives up to the promise of its first five minutes. Cinematographer Paul Sarossy and composer Mychael Danna, both Egoyan mainstays, contribute to the overall mood of stable uncertainty, but it’s hard to latch onto a psychological thriller that falls short on its promise to thrill. 2023. *