Only the Canadian writer-director Atom Egoyan (“Exotica,” “The Sweet Hereafter”) could have made the movie “Seven Veils ... use of video as evidence, private anguish played out ...

Russell’s composer biopics were usually labours of love. This was the opposite: he regarded Strauss’s music as 'bombastic, sham and hollow', and despised the composer for claiming to be ...

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, ...

the Dance of the Seven Veils. From playing the girl next door in Jennifer's Body to Elizabeth Holmes in The Dropout, Amanda Seyfried has consistently proven that she's willing to experiment in her ...

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 ...

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.