Celine Dion had nothing to do with 'Aline Dieu,' the wonderfully berserk movie about her life, but her zany energy is all over it. rachel_handler writes
Photo: JEAN MARIE LEROY/Gaumont I realized I was in for something wonderfully berserk very early on in Aline, the unofficial Celine Dion biopic from writer-director-star Valérie Lemercier, which premiered at Cannes on Tuesday to a combination of bewilderment and delight. Lemercier plays Aline Dieu , foreshadowing the very slight artistic license taken with biographical details here.
Wait, so, this is a movie about Celine Dion but she wasn’t involved at all? Is she mad about it, or … ? The movie is billed as a “freely inspired fiction” based on Dion’s life. Celine Dion has not commented on the film, but if she did, I bet she would laugh maniacally and say, “Shall we go for it?” Did the movie get the rights to Celine’s actual songs? Most of the songs in the movie are Celine’s famous covers: “River Deep, Mountain High,” “What a Wonderful World,” and “Nature Boy,” among others. There’s a lot of her French stuff in here, as well. But most impressively, the movie manages to get the rights to “My Heart Will Go On,” and re-creates Celine’s famous Oscar performance of the song. Somehow, they still had the budget to also re-create her massive Floridian villa.
Anyway, the whole thing is odd at first, but Aline does a great job of portraying the pair as gentle French-Canadian soul mates who have each other’s best interests at heart and, more importantly, are both weirdos. For example, at one point, Aline tells Guy-Claude she’s pregnant after years of infertility struggles by writing “BB” into his carrot soup with her finger. Both of them find this normal.
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