‘Aline’ is a quasi-biopic in which, at one point, an actor of almost 60 plays a small child. It's also quite compelling.
that premiered here at the Cannes Film Festival on Tuesday. They are more likely to be familiar with the work of. Lemercier is, I’ve learned, known for work in which she transforms—sometimes into children, other times, well,is an utter shock, one of the strangest approaches to a biopic I’ve yet seen.: Lemercier, who is 57, plays a character based on Dion at all ages of her life.
The uncanny effect of this lasts nearly throughout the whole movie, the sight of a digitally shrunk Lemercier wobbling around as a young singer on the rise lingering long after Aline has grown into adulthood. Lemercier apes the tics and mannerisms of a child in a way that might play okay on stage, but in the close-up of film is almost menacing.
The René of it all—he was 38 when he first met a 12-year-old Dion, and would marry her 13 years later—is handled with only semi-cautious affection. Time is spent registering the family’s resistance to the relationship, particularly from Aline’s mother, played with tenacious bustle by. But the story must eventually give way to acceptance, and I can’t quite tell if, in this instance, Lemercier’s casting is a copout.
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