What's missing is an exploration of Dion's art as a singer. She did have to go on vocal rest for three months once, to save her vocal cords. There's no real conflict, though, since Dion hasn't had a controversial career dogged by "dramatic" events like addiction or love affairs or public scandal. The film obediently trudges through all of the events that make up this extraordinary singer's career, from winning Eurovision in 1988, to recording her mega-hit "My Heart Will Go On" for the " Titanic" soundtrack (Aline hears the opening chords of the demo and says, "I don't like it"), to the grind of her Las Vegas residencies, the isolation of fame, the struggles of being a working mother, etc. The romantic scenes between Marcel and Lemercier are awkward, to say the very least, but at least by this point in the film Lemercier is actually a normal-sized human with her own head!Īs biopics go, setting aside the Uncanny Valley, "Aline" is fairly innocuous, and it makes all the same mistakes most biopics make. There was the age difference, yes, but the fact that he had managed her since she was a child generated even more gossip. Dion's marriage to Angélil made headlines at the time. One of Aline's older brothers has connections in the music business, and sends a tape of his 12-year-old sister to a record producer named Guy-Claude Kamar (Sylvain Marcel), obviously a stand-in for René Angélil, who was Dion's manager and eventual husband. Is she so much of a fan that she couldn't bear to hire a child actress to play child Celine? She needed to embody six-year-old Celine as well?Īline is born to elderly working-class parents, and it's a very close family, held together by the stern and generous mama Sylvette ( Danielle Fichaud). Valérie Lemercier has directed vehicles for herself before, and she is obviously an enormous Celine Dion fan. It is, however, a work of fiction." The "however" is pretty shady! One wonders what Dion might think of all of this. The film opens with the following statement: "This film is inspired by the life of Celine Dion. There is an Uncanny Valley sitting at the table and nobody bats an eye. When she's sitting at the dinner table surrounded by her huge family, the effect is so strange it's almost distressing.
Either Lemercier's face has been digitally superimposed, or she has digitally shrunk her own body so she appears to be a child surrounded by adults. This "device" continues through "Aline"'s early sequences showing Aline's rise as a child singing phenom. My response was: What in the Uncanny Valley is going on here? The overall effect is so creepy it breaks the fabric of not just the film, but reality itself. But what makes this moment so jarring and downright weird is that the 56-year-old airbrushed face of Valérie Lemercier, the star (and director) of "Aline," has been awkwardly superimposed on the child's body. This little pipsqueak is going to be bigger than all of her siblings one day, and she already knows it! Okay, fair enough, pretty standard, in terms of biopics. They sing, grinning down at her occasionally, and she peeks up beneath the stage, eyes glimmering with what is probably supposed to be happiness and also foreshadowing. She is the 14th child, decades younger than her siblings. In this rare 'in-between' shot, she's not posing she's simply having her makeup touched up."Aline" stands below the stage where her family sings. She also proved that she was a fashion force to be reckoned with, who held her own in a sea of much-younger celebrities, such as rising starlets. 20Ĭeline Dion pretty much won the 2019 Met Gala's "camp" theme with her outlandish feathery headdress and layers of shiny fringe. Here are 20 Photos That Change The Way We See Celine Dion.
Our perception of Celine Dion has changed multiple times over the years, and we've got a lot of memorable photos to thank for it. like that time Deadpool danced in her music video. Whether she's making a dramatic appearance on the red carpet or simply gracing the public with her presence, it's always an event with Celine! She's been gaining a whole new generation of fans (and curious onlookers) as a result, and it's exciting to see what she'll do next. Dion has reemerged as a style icon, due to her adventurous outfits and sense of humor, both on and offstage. With multiple Las Vegas residencies and tours, she's remained popular in recent decades. The Canadian singer first rose to prominence in the late 1980s and early 1990s, because of her powerful ballads, then gained even more international fame with her iconic 1997 Titanic end-credits song, "My Heart will Go On". It's tough to find anyone who hasn't heard the name, Celine Dion.
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