In “Seven Veils,” Amanda Seyfried puts her wide, unblinking eyes to good use as a woman staring at the present and unable to see anything but the past. The actress plays Jeanine, a theater ...

her Dance of the Seven Veils, Salome’s lust for John the Baptist and the circumstances forcing Salome to settle for a kiss on the lips of her beloved’s beheaded head instead. Psychosexually ...

Was Amanda Seyfried surprised when the offer came to star in “Seven Veils,” a movie ... was not going to be doing the notorious Dance of the Seven Veils, much less be naked?

Salome culminates in the "Dance of the Seven Veils," wherein the titular stepdaughter of King Herod agrees to perform a slow strip tease, relinquishing her seven veils until she lays bare at his feet.

The actress plays Jeanine, a theater director mounting a production of the Richard Strauss opera “Salome” that increasingly reflects her childhood trauma, to the confusion of Jeanine’s cast, crew, ...