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[TommKat22]

Yeah, it’s odd that the French version is listed as her most recent release on US Spotify. I had to search for the English version. Sad because I think casual English listeners won’t engage if they think it’s a French soundtrack.

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[CelinesDIVO5]

The soundtrack is #26 on US iTunes. Not a bad position for being released only 48 minutes ago.

[scielle]

New interview with Irene:

[marc-02]

fikus1, on 20 June 2024 - 09:45 PM, said:

I had the same thought when it comes to "Ten days"! �� It really does sound the same ��

Haha... I had to glance back at the screen to check, because I thought my player had shuffled back to the ANDHC album and randomly played Ten Days (because like on the soundtrack, it also comes after ANDHC!)! ������ but then I realized I was still on the soundtrack playlist ��

Edited by marc-02, 20 June 2024 - 11:25 PM.

[marc-02]

It's now No. 1 (iTunes) in two countries, Philippines and Taiwan.

[scielle]

scielle, on 20 June 2024 - 11:05 PM, said:

New interview with Irene:

Sorry, can no longer edit but should have said this does contain some spoilers.

[scielle]

Another one with Irene. She did the rounds! (Don’t think any spoilers here.)

[Ronny83]

TommKat22, on 20 June 2024 - 10:25 PM, said:

Yeah, it's odd that the French version is listed as her most recent release on US Spotify. I had to search for the English version. Sad because I think casual English listeners won't engage if they think it's a French soundtrack.

They simply don't care. Céline's music career is sadly handled like a joke.

[jpatdeleon09]

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Edited by jpatdeleon09, 21 June 2024 - 12:26 AM.

[scielle]

More from Irene: https://www.newslett...eathing-4672324
There are spoilers there so you may want to wait to see the film but -

“In the year that Taylor and her crew spent making I Am: Celine Dion, the singer only left her house three times – once to go to the recording studio for her first attempt in three years to record a song.
[…]
I Am: Celine Dion was already in pre-production when Dion received her diagnosis, and Taylor says she was “stunned” when Dion’s managers sat her down with “some grim news”.

“Doctors were beginning to suspect that this beloved, one-in-a-million entertainer had developed a one-in-a-million disease, that I had never even heard of, called stiff person syndrome,” says the filmmaker.

“There was no cure, they said, and each day Celine might experience a roulette of symptoms – rigidity, difficulty breathing and muscle spasms so severe she might not be able to talk or walk.

“I was stunned. The irony of it all seemed cruel.””

[jpatdeleon09]

“.. the singer only left her house three times” - maybe this is the time where a leaked photos of Celine in a white outfit wearing a mask in a long ponytailed hair with the twins? Some fans said that they have visited the dentist? I think it was in late 2022?

Edited by jpatdeleon09, 21 June 2024 - 12:41 AM.

[Ukrfan]

I’m again confused. Doesn’t pre-production means that they didn’t begin shooting yet? So this must mean started in fall 2022, but I keep seeing in reviews that the started fall 2021 and ended in late 2022…

[Ukrfan]

jpatdeleon09, on 21 June 2024 - 12:40 AM, said:

“.. the singer only left her house three times” - maybe this is the time where a leaked photos of Celine in a white outfit wearing a mask in a long ponytailed hair with the twins? Some fans said that they have visited the dentist? I think it was in late 2022?

It was December 2021 IIRC.

[ordinary fan]

It's also the French soundtrack title here in Germany on Spotify, weird

[jpatdeleon09]

Ukrfan, on 21 June 2024 - 12:41 AM, said:

It was December 2021 IIRC.

Oh so it’s not yet the recording session…

[jpatdeleon09]

That’s why guys transfer to Apple Music and I think it’s now cheaper than Spotify. Apple Music sound quality is much better and even better with Dolby Atmos. - this is much better if you have a home theater at least 5.1 channel with capable of playing Dolby Atmos with your recievers. Tho, you need Apple TV lol

Edited by jpatdeleon09, 21 June 2024 - 12:49 AM.

[mirage]

tshlw, on 20 June 2024 - 06:00 PM, said:

When I registered got this email maybe they will limit how many can view her message or doing some virtual thing where chat with each other,

at bottom had this


FOR AN OPTIMAL EXPERIENCE
This is a web-based experience. Please join via laptop or desktop computer with a reliable internet connection of at least 10 mb/s using recommended browser, Google Chrome. For enhanced viewing, you may cast to a TV using an Apple TV device or by connecting an HDCP-compliant HDMI cable to your TV.

Other supported Apple browsers include Firefox, Safari, and Opera on Mac OSX 10.12 or higher. If you're using an iPad/iPad Pro/iPhone, use Safari.

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Oh I'll skip this one haha. I need to watch this without distraction from a chat.
Maybe they use her speech at the premiere.

Let's hope someone records it.

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[Céline RO]

jpatdeleon09, on 21 June 2024 - 12:40 AM, said:

“.. the singer only left her house three times” - maybe this is the time where a leaked photos of Celine in a white outfit wearing a mask in a long ponytailed hair with the twins? Some fans said that they have visited the dentist? I think it was in late 2022?

Would her going ice skating for her 55th birthday be one of the outings? It makes sense when considering the timeline.

[PuraVida]

Saw the documentary. I am curious to compare the streams of the songs shown in the film now with how they'll be after it launches worldwide. And her overall streaming numbers as well.

[Nmj]

Is it my ears or does BYLM sound different on this soundtrack?

[jpatdeleon09]

PuraVida, on 21 June 2024 - 02:56 AM, said:

Saw the documentary. I am curious to compare the streams of the songs shown in the film now with how they'll be after it launches worldwide. And her overall streaming numbers as well.

You saw the docu in theaters? How long will they show this in theaters btw?

[jpatdeleon09]

Nmj, on 21 June 2024 - 03:09 AM, said:

Is it my ears or does BYLM sound different on this soundtrack?

The instrumentations.. Actually, I think they tweaked something in these Dolby mixes for this album. It became louder and the vocals are more I would say cleaner?

[Nmj]

jpatdeleon09, on 21 June 2024 - 03:09 AM, said:

You saw the docu in theaters? How long will they show this in theaters btw?

Just until Sunday.

[scielle]

More from Irene: https://thenightly.c...rome-c-15097200
There are spoilers there so proceed with caution. Some non-spoilery excerpts below.

“ Filmmaker Irene Taylor had signed on to direct a documentary about Dion before she knew the resulting movie would be a raw, honest and, at times, harrowing look up close at the Canadian chanteuse’s challenges with a condition that attacks her muscles, affecting every aspect of her physicality.

“I had no idea what the film would be about,” Taylor told The Nightly. “And when Celine’s manager called me one day and said, ‘Look, I need to talk to you about something’, and then told me there’s something mysteriously wrong with her.

“‘We don’t know what it is, but it’s undeniable, we cannot get to the bottom of it and I’m sorry we didn’t tell you earlier.’ I remember my response in that moment was, ‘Oh, the film just went like this to like this,” Taylor said while signalling with her hands that the focus had shifted from a wide-ranging story to one that had narrowed.

“If you imagine the iris of a lens, it just got a lot more focused.”

[After filming a particularly difficult scene -]

Taylor remembered that day clearly. “I think I must have been palpably out-of-sorts,” she recalled. “Because Celine, just as she was leaving that night, she was getting in her car to go home, and she just took my hand and sort of assured me, like, ‘You OK?’.

“I must have been showing a little bit of my nerves. Then when I got back to my Airbnb with my team, we were all pretty stunned. I called one of my producing partners and told him what happened, walked him through it.

“And had a glass of wine.””

[Nmj]

scielle, on 21 June 2024 - 04:56 AM, said:

More from Irene: https://thenightly.c...rome-c-15097200
There are spoilers there so proceed with caution. Some non-spoilery excerpts below.

“ Filmmaker Irene Taylor had signed on to direct a documentary about Dion before she knew the resulting movie would be a raw, honest and, at times, harrowing look up close at the Canadian chanteuse’s challenges with a condition that attacks her muscles, affecting every aspect of her physicality.

“I had no idea what the film would be about,” Taylor told The Nightly. “And when Celine’s manager called me one day and said, ‘Look, I need to talk to you about something’, and then told me there’s something mysteriously wrong with her.

“‘We don’t know what it is, but it’s undeniable, we cannot get to the bottom of it and I’m sorry we didn’t tell you earlier.’ I remember my response in that moment was, ‘Oh, the film just went like this to like this,” Taylor said while signalling with her hands that the focus had shifted from a wide-ranging story to one that had narrowed.

“If you imagine the iris of a lens, it just got a lot more focused.”

[After filming a particularly difficult scene -]

Taylor remembered that day clearly. “I think I must have been palpably out-of-sorts,” she recalled. “Because Celine, just as she was leaving that night, she was getting in her car to go home, and she just took my hand and sort of assured me, like, ‘You OK?’.

“I must have been showing a little bit of my nerves. Then when I got back to my Airbnb with my team, we were all pretty stunned. I called one of my producing partners and told him what happened, walked him through it.

“And had a glass of wine.””

Thanks for sharing.
Wow, so this gives much more insight into how Irene found out and how they had to pivot the concept of this documentary. Isn’t today her screening in Portland with the Q/A!?

Edited by Nmj, 21 June 2024 - 05:55 AM.

[scielle]

Nmj, on 21 June 2024 - 05:53 AM, said:

Wow, so this gives much more insight into how Irene found out and how they had to pivot the concept of this documentary. Isn’t today her screening in Portland with the Q/A!?

No, that’s tomorrow. Today is the PAM fundraiser at which she’s one of the award recipients.

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scielle, on 21 June 2024 - 04:56 AM, said:

"Because Celine, just as she was leaving that night, she was getting in her car to go home, and she just took my hand and sort of assured me, like, 'You OK?'.

But of course she did

On the flip side, Céline also lucked out finding a filmmaker with a heart. I can see why she mentioned she sees Irene as a friend (despite having met via a work assignment). The entire experience was intense for both as human beings, this kind of seeing and being seen, full trust. I'm just reading articles quoting Irene and the intensity oozes out, whew.

[mirage]

Roddy Chong tweeted about him working with Celine.

https://x.com/roddyc...7yJVgA3JlQ&s=19

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[scielle]

Nice new article from Globe & Mail.
https://www.theglobe...r-her-comeback/
It’s behind a paywall so pasting the full thing.

“Quebeckers are feeling Celine Dion’s pain, and rooting for her comeback

The new documentary on Quebec superstar Celine Dion’s struggle with a rare neurological disorder is not for the faint of heart. I Am: Celine Dion takes her fans on such an emotional rollercoaster that one of them fainted during a Montreal screening of the Prime Video doc, while another visibly upset audience member had to be helped out of the room.
It is almost as if Ms. Dion, no longer able to belt out the power ballads that made her a global pop icon, has offered her fans the documentary equivalent of My Heart Will Go On – a wrenching composition with an over-the-top climax.
A reviewer for Britain’s The Telegraph described I Am: Celine Dion as “a weirdly compelling, yet discombobulating cross between Spinal Tap, Sunset Boulevard and a harrowing medical documentary.” That is Ms. Dion, at once parodying herself and channelling Gloria Swanson in the lonely Las Vegas mansion where she has spent the past few years in rehabilitation and out of the limelight.
Ms. Dion has always done things in big and eccentric ways. “My dream is to be [sic] international star,” she haltingly said in her first English interview, at age 15, in 1983. She proved the critics wrong. And there were plenty of them in Quebec back then. They mocked her hokey songs and naïveté.
That was until Ms. Dion put Quebec on the map. Most of the world had never heard of la belle province before she came along. Her rags-to-riches saga – as the youngest of 14 children who started out so poor the family lived on Maman Dion’s carrot pie – made her by far the most admired person in her home province.
Generations of francophone Quebeckers had grown up being told they were né pour un petit pain (born for bread crumbs), eternally condemned to a lower rank than their anglophone compatriots. Ms. Dion shattered the linguistic glass ceiling once and for all, without ever renouncing her Québécois roots or accent.
By the mid-1990s, after she had swept the Grammy Awards and made the cover of Time magazine, her stardom had come to represent much more than just a homegrown success story. Quebeckers had come to worship her in the same way an earlier generation had venerated Montreal Canadiens great Maurice (The Rocket) Richard.
“Her successes are the successes of all Québécois, as much as the Rocket’s goals were consolation for the humiliations experienced by French Canadians in the past,” political analyst Christian Dufour wrote in La Presse in 1996 after Ms. Dion opened the Canadiens new home arena, now known as the Bell Centre.
I have been following Ms. Dion’s career almost from the start. I was in the stands in 1984 when she sang before Pope John Paul II at Montreal’s Olympic Stadium. For years, as a Quebec Globe and Mail correspondent starting in the 1990s, it became impossible not to write about her, such was her importance to the province’s cultural and yes, political, identity at the height of her fame.
So I empathized with Quebeckers when Ms. Dion revealed, in late 2022, that she had been diagnosed with stiff person syndrome. The condition, as she recently disclosed in interviews to promote her new documentary, had robbed her of her ability to perform without taking prodigious quantities of Valium. Her once ethereal voice had been reduced to a nasal drone; she had to lower the keys on some songs or drop them from her repertoire. She eventually had to stop singing altogether.
In other words, her fairy tale had turned tragic. No one felt her pain more than Quebeckers. Her most loyal fans around the world may have grieved intensely. But the impact on the collective psyche of Quebeckers has been especially deep. Now, evoking Ms. Dion’s name in Quebec is to provoke a pang of sadness.
Film review: In emotional documentary befitting its star, I Am: Celine Dion mourns for singer’s once-mighty voice
The gruelling media junket Ms. Dion undertook in the run-up to the release of her documentary has many full-time Celine watchers speculating that she is now well enough to contemplate an imminent return to the stage. The CBC even sent chief correspondent Adrienne Arsenault to Las Vegas to snag a sitdown with her. Ms. Dion insisted: “Oh, I’ll sing again. I’ll sing again. That’s for sure.”
Le Parisien, a tabloid newspaper in the French capital, has reported that Ms. Dion could sing at next month’s opening of the Paris Olympics. She did not quash that rumour when asked about it at this week’s New York premiere of her documentary.
At 56, Ms. Dion has nothing to prove. But a comeback would be a triumph not just for her, but for all Quebeckers. That is just how much she matters to them.“