“I understand, but I hope one time before my death she can look at it, and she can be able to watch it,” she says.
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She says she understands that Dion might feel awkward watching a movie about her life that isn’t entirely as she has lived it. They know it’s nothing like exactly true, but the fans are happy with the movie.” “They’ve seen the movie and they were very happy with it. “I have a special relation with the Reddit fan club of Celine,” Lemercier says. Lemercier says she believes the film is a loving portrait of a star, and the feedback she’s received from fans so far has been positive. “When I was singing, I was 200 percent in my songs, and very happy to do it.”ĭion has not commented on “Aline,” though a few members of her large family criticized the project. I didn’t want only imitation parody of Celine.”Īs for her physical performance, Lemercier says she worked to immerse herself into the character and channel her passion on stage for the concert scenes. “I wanted to hear the whole voice,” she explains. Sio ended up recording 16 songs for the film in a month and a half, with Lemercier coaching her like an actress in the studio. “For example, singers who could sing the very, very difficult song, “All By Myself.’ “There’d been 50 singers with a big level of singing,” Lemercier says. A search that considered dozens of singers eventually landed on young French singer Victoria Sio, whose vocals sound close to how you remember Dion’s. Lemercier nails the kind of awkward intensity of Dion on stage, but she didn’t attempt to perform her vocals.
“It’s ‘to love and be loved in return.’ They couldn’t do without love.” The standard “Nature Boy” also surfaces throughout the film, serving as a theme for the love story of “Aline.” Lemercier says it’s the most important song in the movie for how it speaks to what she imagined Dion had felt after losing her husband. “Ordinaire,” by the Quebecois songwriter Robert Charlebois, is heard at the start and the finish of the film.
He was totally mad for Colonel Parker (Elvis’s manager), who was a model for René.” “René, when he was 25, he’d been to the Elvis funeral.
“The one that I was really, really surprised was ‘Love Me Tender’ of Elvis Presley,” Lemercier says of a song on her wish list that came through. And while the film wasn’t approved by Dion or her management, the fact that Dion almost exclusively records and performs songs written by other people left the door open for plenty of Dion’s biggest hits, including “My Heart Will Go On,” the theme song to “Titanic.” The recreation of performances on huge stages in flashy productions is impressive. And if you trust the judgment of the French film industry, she was awarded the Cesar for best actress for her performance in the film, which received a total of 10 nominations including best director and best writer for Lemercier.Ī movie about Dion couldn’t be made without the music she’s known for. Remarkably, this plays in “Aline” much less strange than the descriptions here might suggest. “And after they reduce me, all my body, they may grow the head a little bit, because only to reduce to the head would be too small,” Lemercier says. I’m playing it with all my body, all my hands. “It’s not my old face put on the baby body,” she says. Her desk in elementary school and her childhood bed were oversized props to make Lemercier look small against them. The age-shifting was done with a mix of practical and digital effects. She says, ‘I’m looking like a grandmother,’ when she saw a picture or video when she was 12. “I played (her) early because when she was 12, she was an adult,” Lemercier says. Not that the star and director paid that response any mind, or even seem to grasp why people found it, well, a bit odd. Lemercier was 55 when she shot the film, and it was the visuals of a young girl with a face that seemed uncannily mature, that set Cannes abuzz last summer. As a young star, a mother, and a grief-stricken wife approaching 50. As a 12-year-old meeting her manager and future husband for the first time. She plays her as a child singing at a family wedding. In “Aline,” Lemercier plays Dion in every chapter of her life that’s more literal than you might think. “For me, it was something important, the three main characters.” Because she loved her mother, and she loved that man. “Love story with the mother and love story with him. “The love story seems the main thing of that life,” Lemercier says.