"I Am: Celine Dion" documentary - Official Topic

[idroveallnight]

Hope Dave Platel is gone for good. Never liked him to begin with, but the interactions he had with Céline in the doc felt really insincere. A great contrast with all the other people that surround her (who seem like genuinely nice people).

 

Really, why do you say this? He was in the AND secrets doc and I thought he was perfectly kind. I think he and Rene worked very well together and that’s why she’s kept him around. Of course he should be trying harder with Sony but I think things fell apart when Tommy Matola left.

[scielle]

Oh plus a lot of Maria Callas! I wonder (hope & dream) if they are hints that she is/will be working on the film about her!

When she started the ballet dancing i was thinking that maybei she did it for the movie. Like to be more dramatic. And she was using a lot of operatic voice in different cases.

No, I believe production for that film - after years of development purgatory - is finally done, with Angelina Jolie as the lead.

[scielle]

Edit: he actually reacted last night to the movie on his IG

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He actually retweeted me a few days back

He's been posting about it on IG for a few days now I believe. Hard not to! Congrats to him!

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Edited June 25, 2024 at 11:16 PM by scielle

[ewh12]

 

 

She mentions it on this new interview

 

 

 

 

In this brilliant interview her new manager(s) are John and Joyce… I’m

Guessing that lady is Joyce that she took a pic with outside her NYC movie premiere.

 

This must be Joyce

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C8Vepzisyd6/?igsh=MXVzYXY2d3h4ZjkyZg==

 

She also confirms she’s already working on her new show.

 

Thank you! I watched the video in one of my quiet moments that made me doze off. Keeping up with Céline is a hard job!

[scielle]

So much positive press! I can't keep up!

 

MSNBC: How Celine Dion conquered the critics to become queen of the world

The wellspring of love for the legendary star can be traced back to the genre with which she was once derisively associated.

By Claire Sisco King, professor and author of "Mapping the Stars: Celebrity, Metonymy, and the Networked Politics of Identity"

 

"James Cameron’s 1997 melodrama “Titanic” generated some of the most imitated and parodied scenes from cinematic history. In arguably the most memorable, Leonardo DiCaprio wraps his arms around Kate Winslet’s waist at the bow of the doomed cruise liner, as an instrumental version of Céline Dion’s romantic ballad “My Heart Will Go On” plays in the background. This definitive song from the film’s soundtrack was one Dion’s many chart-toppers in the 1990s, alongside other hits like “Because You Loved Me,” “It’s All Coming Back to Me Now” and “The Power of Love.” While these songs ranked at the top of the Billboard Hot 100 charts, they were also often critically dismissed as saccharine and excessive. In 1994, The New York Times described her songs as having a “soap-operatic grandiosity;” in 2002, Slant Magazine described her work as a “collection of drippy, gooey pop fluffer-nutter;” and in 2005, Maxim named “My Heart Will Go On” as the third “Most Annoying Song Ever.” Dion was, for many, the kind of star people loved to hate.

Two decades later, Dion has arguably never been more beloved. Amazon’s new documentary “I Am: Celine Dion” premiered Tuesday after enjoying weeks of positive press. Dion, who was forced to stop performing due to her battle with stiff-person syndrome, was embraced by cheering crowds after a surprise appearance at the Grammys in 2024.

What then can account for changing attitudes toward Dion? So polarizing was Dion’s music that, in 2014, author Carl Wilson wrote a book about his yearlong efforts to understand her appeal, citing Dion’s lack of coolness as central to the love/hate responses her music has tended to inspire. The cause of such alleged uncoolness could be found in the intensity and earnestness of Dion’s ballads — to say nothing of her quirky and often over-the-top mannerisms and dance moves.

As early as 1997, however, Jonathan Bernstein predicted that, while Dion was decidedly not cool then, by 2012 she would be. Bernstein’s math might not have been entirely accurate, but his prognostication was spot on. The world’s evolving reception of Dion was on full display at the 2017 Billboard Music Awards, where a range of celebrities — from Drake to Katy Perry to Vanessa Hudgens — gushed over having met the pop star after she performed “My Heart Will Go On” on its 20th anniversary. The Atlantic even declared, “Celine Dion Saved the Billboard Music Awards.”

In part, Dion’s transformation illustrates the extent to which “cool” as a concept is always contextually specific and, therefore, subject to change. Things can become so cool that they are uncool and so uncool that they are cool. By the late 2010s, the 1990s could be imagined as a distant enough past that their artifacts could take on new “vintage” or “retro” appeal and, as such, take on a new life.

But this wellspring of love for Dion can also be traced back to the genre with which Dion has been derisively associated: melodrama. Whether in theater, cinema or television soap operas, melodrama frequently depicts stories of love and loss, sacrifice and betrayal, crisis and redemption. Melodrama has therefore become the primary framework through which celebrity culture has developed, fixating on the rise and fall of stars, including both professional and personal triumphs and upsets.

In the case of Dion, increased love for the star cannot be separated from public knowledge about her personal life. Famously, or perhaps infamously, Dion was married to her music manager, René Angélil, who discovered Dion when she was 12. They married 14 years later, when Dion was 26 and Angélil was 52. In 2016, Angélil passed away after a public battle with cancer. This tragic loss set the stage for audiences to find new connections to and affection for the incomparable Céline.

Over the next few years, her life often felt like it was conforming to the emotional arcs tracked by her songs and played out in tragic love stories like that in “Titanic.” Dion’s announcement, just four years later, that she was suffering from a rare autoimmune disorder only amplified this pathos. Dion went on to star in the incredibly melodramatic 2023 film “Love Again,” in which she and her music help two heartbroken people — one dumped a week before his wedding, the other grieving the death of her partner — find, well, love again. And it is in this context that Dion has transcended from the role of ’90s pop diva to a cultural icon whom fans interpret as a symbol of persistence and resilience.

In short, she has transformed from a relic of the 1990s to the kind of star audiences love to love."

[LukeD]

Finally trending on X! I can see it in the Entertainment/music section - 1,346 posts!

[Gicedi]

A lot of online Greek media press write about the documentary!!

Focusing on the shocking moment of the crisis!

 

BTW, the moment of the crisis it was the first time since Rene's death that i wish he was there by her side!

I felt bad that she was alone with no someone very close to her. Not even one of her 12 siblings.

Edited June 25, 2024 at 11:21 PM by Gicedi

[LukeD]

A lot of online Greek media press write about the documentary!!

Focusing on the shocking moment of the crisis!

 

BTW, the moment of the crisis it was the first time since Rene's death that i wish he was there by her side!

I felt bad that she was alone with no someone very close to her. Not even one of her 12 siblings.

Send me links to the press via PM please!

[scielle]

In this podcast interview with ABC in Australia, Irene talks about why Celine is a great CEO:

 

"Celine is a really good executive. She has developed really strong executive functioning. She is the CEO of her empire. Everyone is really loyal with her because I think she is a very good delegator."

 

https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/stop-everything/celine-dion-review/104018918

[marc-02]

Question: Before exiting the warehouse, she says: I must have liked one of these because I have four.

 

Does she mean she has four warehouses?? I was like, what? As if this was not big enough to store this much, and you have four!?

[marc-02]

Unexpectedly, Mariah gets a "shoutout" in this film hahaha

[remykyes]

The Amazon Prime Watch Party is live. This will be my first watch (I want to see what Celine has to say before) but you don't have to join the chat if you don't want to.

[LukeD]

5,414 posts on X now! Trending higher!

[Mudo]

A lot of online Greek media press write about the documentary!!

Focusing on the shocking moment of the crisis!

 

 

BTW, the moment of the crisis it was the first time since Rene's death that i wish he was there by her side!

I felt bad that she was alone with no someone very close to her. Not even one of her 12 siblings.

There were 2 moments of crisis, one at the beginning where she had to go to the hospital on a stretcher and another one after she exited one of the recording sessions for love again, the therapist was there on both occasions, he saved her life props to him, it is God wrenching that disease of her,I couldn't stop crying, not sure what a family could have done better, she goes out of it completely, so whether it's a loved one or not, they can do so much to help and better have a specialist that can keep calm and know what to do

Edited June 26, 2024 at 12:04 AM by Mudo

[scielle]

So... the Watch Party has no subtitles nor closed captioning? That's kind of wild, considering what a stickler Irene is about accessibility.

[Mudo]

So... the Watch Party has no subtitles nor closed captioning? That's kind of wild, considering what a stickler Irene is about accessibility.

You can subscribe to prime for the 30 day trial then cancel it after watching it before the 30 day trial end, essentially making it free to watch and it has subtitles in many languages if you need them

[tshlw]

Here is the message from Celine before the Premier on Amazon.

 

[scielle]

 

You can subscribe to prime for the 30 day trial then cancel it after watching it before the 30 day trial end, essentially making it free to watch and it has subtitles in many languages if you need them

I have Prime, but the version I’m watching has no subtitles and not seeing an option to turn any on (not that it matters for me, but for others). Yes, you have those options if watching by yourself, but seems not during this Watch Party livestream.

 

Edited June 26, 2024 at 12:31 AM by scielle

[scielle]

A BTS shot of the interviews: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7211387277300654083?updateEntityUrn=urn%3Ali%3Afs_feedUpdate%3A%28V2%2Curn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A7211387277300654083%29

[KyleVan41]

Is it possible to love her more? I cried like a baby. If I can’t run, I’ll crawl back to Vegas when she’s ready.

 

Give her and Irene the Grammy already for best music film/documentary

Edited June 26, 2024 at 12:46 AM by KyleVan41

[incognito]

In this podcast interview with ABC in Australia, Irene talks about why Celine is a great CEO:

 

"Celine is a really good executive. She has developed really strong executive functioning. She is the CEO of her empire. Everyone is really loyal with her because I think she is a very good delegator."

 

https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/stop-everything/celine-dion-review/104018918

 

Thank you for always taking the time to go through various media pieces and sharing the important parts with us. I know you have a day job and don’t have to do this.

[scielle]

Thank you for always taking the time to go through various media pieces and sharing the important parts with us. I know you have a day job and don’t have to do this.

 

It’s a… peculiar hobby! 🫢

 

Anyway, I know this isn’t topic-appropriate but we’ve been discussing it here so - more from Hauser:

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[anewdayhascome]

Not many reactions to the doc from the celebs though, right?

[PuraVida]

The English singer and writer Tracey Thorn watched it and said on Twitter:

 

"Had to fast forward through quite a lot that I found boring. And then obviously there are some bits that are extremely uncomfortable. I was left very unsure about it."

[scielle]

What’s that you say, Rolling Stone??

 

“The new Amazon Prime documentary I Am: Celine Dion offers a gripping and heartbreaking portrait of one of history’s greatest voices struggling to sing again.”

 

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(Note it’s just a summary… too chicken to write an actual review, are we? Egg on your face?)

 

[PuraVida]

Not many reactions to the doc from the celebs though, right?

 

I think it's still early. The majority of the film's eventual audience won't have seen it yet.

[scielle]

Discussion on Loose Women in the UK:

[scielle]

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[tshlw]

Did you guys notice the different way she was singing Love Again right at the end for a about a minute? I really liked it, would not mind if she record a version like this.

 

[scielle]

Did you guys notice the different way she was singing Love Again right at the end for an about a minute? I really liked it, would not mind if she record a version like this.

I was actually just going to comment about that and how much I loved it.

Reminds me of her doing something similar with LTAL years back.

I would love to hear more of this from Celine; just absolutely love it.

 

40sec into this:

 

 

Edited June 26, 2024 at 02:39 AM by scielle