You know who does a really great Céline Dion? Kathy Griffin. Typically withering in her impressions, the comedienne clearly has a soft spot for the vocal superstar. She gets the singer’s French-Can…
You know who does a really great Céline Dion? Kathy Griffin. Typically withering in her impressions, the comedienne clearly has a soft spot for the vocal superstar. She gets the singer’s French-Canadian accent, the unconventional appeal of her open-book private life and that fabulously operatic body language — one hand gesturing toward heaven, the other beating her chest — cultivated over a career of projecting her emotions, like her voice, to the very back row.
It’s a fearless choice at the center of the year’s most play-it-safe production, where the hairstyles change, but the face never does . “Aline” was all set for a 2020 release till the pandemic gave Lemercier opportunity to launch the film out of competition at Cannes. But this is no “Rocketman” nor “Bohemian Rhapsody” — worshipful hagiographies both that still managed to find a kernel of bad-boy drama in their rock-star subjects.
Americans have a different notion of Céline Dion from her European fans , linked more to a handful of massively popular movie themes and mid-’90s English power ballads than her French-language hits. The latter make up the majority of those Lemercier lip syncs here . “Aline” may be a “fiction freely inspired” by Dion’s life, but apart from shuffling when certain singles fall in the hitmaker’s career, Lemercier doesn’t actually allow herself all that much artistic license. When Céline told René that she was pregnant, she didn’t doodle the news in a bowl of carrot purée the way Aline does in the movie — but it’s cuter this way.
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