on the making of Aline, her fictionalized movie about Celine Dion.
Celine Dion is a pop icon nay, a pop powerhouse whose voice has moved hearts for generations. She is a force to be reckoned with, and now French filmmaker
Valérie Lemercier (
Aline, which is loosely based on the life of the singer.
As Lemercier is primarily a stand-up comedian, she decided on a slightly ridiculous route in portraying the life of Aline Dieu, a fictionalized version of Dion. In addition to co-writing and directing the movie, Lemercier also plays the titular character not only as an adult but even as a child as young as five years old.
Celine Dion biopic powered by love at Cannes Film Festival
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Here s everything we know about Aline, the controversial new Céline Dion biopic
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Celine Dion receives sincere homage at Cannes Film Festival
Thu, Jul 15, 2021
CANNES: A biopic of Celine Dion offered some light relief from the usual gritty arthouse fare at Cannes. Aline: The Voice of Love is one of the least pretentious music biopics in memory, presenting Dion as a gawky nerd who nonetheless sailed from child stardom to become the stadium-filling queen of soft rock.
The filmmakers said they tweaked the star´s name to Aline Dieu to give them some wriggle room over the details of her story, though it hews closely to Dion´s real life and songs. Otherwise we would have a brother complaining that his jumper in 1988 was blue not red, joked Valerie Lemercier, who directs and stars in the film, at a news conference Wednesday.