Mar 10 2025 52 mins
Filmmaker Atom Egoyan (“Exotica”, “The Sweet Hereafter”) returns after 9 years for his third appearance on the podcast. He has a new movie that is currently in theaters called “Seven Veils” starring Academy Award® nominee Amanda Seyfried (“Mean Girls”, “Mama Mia”).
The film follows theater director Jeanine (Seyfried) who, after years away, re-enters the opera world to stage her former mentor’s most famous work. Haunted by dark and disturbing memories from her past, Jeanine allows her repressed trauma to color the present as her personal and professional lives begin to unravel. Renowned director Atom Egoyan sees “Seven Veils” as operating within a trilogy alongside his other critically acclaimed works “Exotica” and “The Sweet Hereafter”. In “Seven Veils”, he also reunites with Seyfried, who he worked with on the 2009 film “Chloe”, in this visually stunning, propulsive work, filmed on location during the staging of his acclaimed production of “Salome”. Egoyan directed the opera “Salome” in 1996, the first opera in what would be many to come over his career. Best known as a prominent film director since the 1980s, Egoyan has proven he is a master of both mediums, and “Seven Veils” is his way of bringing both together.
Also on this episode the Canadian filmmaker Jeffrey St. Jules (“Bang Bang Baby”) discusses his new film “The Silent Planet”. The film stars the great actor Elias Koteas (“Exotica”, “Crash”) who joins us in this conversation. Serving a life sentence alone on a distant planet, an aging convict must confront his past when a new prisoner arrives and forces him to remember his life on Earth.