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Walked out | The Best and Worst of TIFF 2023 (2023)
Scenario
A serious theater director is tasked with re-recording his former mentor’s most famous work, the opera Salome. Some disturbing memories from her past allow her repressed trauma to color the present. This is Amanda Seyfried’s second appearance in a film directed by Atom Egoyan since Chloe (2009). There is a fascinating and haunting Hawthorne story in which a father, a prominent avant-garde physician, is fiercely protective of his daughter. As a child, he gradually introduces her to a deadly poisonous plant.
The woman is beautiful and terrible
By the time he grows up, anyone who gets too close to him will suffer and die. The plant’s poison is absorbed into his lifeblood. "Don’t like it," he asks "that no one can bring him down?" His answer cut to the bone. “Father, I would rather have loved someone.” Jeanine is a theater director who, like the woman in the Hawthorne story, is trying to escape from the shadow of heartless people. Abused by her father, her mentor, her husband, and now an arrogant actor—abuse she calls “love”—Jeanine tries to heal and move beyond them without losing what is essential and good about herself.
done, love, perspectives different from mine, etc)
He struggles to break free from the traps set for him. To find something else."Take away one sense and the others are heightened."I love Egoyan films for their depth, surprising twists and interesting themes (passion, wrongful judgments, abuse, attempts to move forward after bad). Following a woman adrift after being abused, Seven Veils continues in the typical ego vein. It takes place at the Canadian Opera Company, a few blocks from where I saw the film’s world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival. While Egoyan spent too much time in the theater for my taste, I understand why they did it.
Off topic – why was Seyfried operated on?
Egoyan directed the opera company’s actual production of Salome and shaped much of it into Seven Veils. Even some of the characters from the opera appear in the film. Jeanine is skillfully brought to life by Amanda Seyfried. Not that she looks bad now, but she looks much better in Egoyan’s previous film, Chloe. (long sigh) As I think of Seven Veils, I like it better.
I see my own in Jeanine’s battles
Overcoming the trauma of abuse is a fascinating topic. Someone who said they loved me really hurt me. Sometimes it’s hard to see if I’m worthy of love.
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