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 director ...

Director Atom Egoyan’s Seven Veils has such a convoluted inspiration to it, and such deeply metaphorical and literal ties to its own filmmaker’s history, that it’s difficult to do its meta-layers ...