Seven Veils

Mar 7, 2025

1h 47m

★ 5.6

Overview

Jeanine, an earnest theatre director, has been given the task of remounting her former mentor’s most famous work, the opera Salome. Haunted by dark and disturbing memories from her past, she allows her repressed trauma to color the present as she re-enters the opera world after so many years away.

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

XYZ Films

Elevation Pictures

Rhombus Media

Ego Film Arts

IPR.VC

Cinetic Media

Crave

Canadian Opera Company

Seven Veils Trailers

Cast

Jeanine

Amanda Seyfried

Clea

Rebecca Liddiard

Luke

Douglas Smith

Paul

Mark O'Brien

Rachel

Vinessa Antoine

Ambur/Salome

Ambur Braid

Johan/John the Baptist

Michael Kupfer-Radecky

Nancy

Tara Nicodemo

Dimitra

Maia Jae

Margot

Lynne Griffin

Beatrice

Lanette Ware

Lizzie

Maya Misaljevic

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