"I Am: Celine Dion" documentary - Official Topic

[PuraVida]

By the way, one of my first impressions of the film was just how beautiful she looked the entire time! Even without makeup, I thought she looked stunning naturally. The movie screen made it way more clear than even other raw "au naturel" photos that have been taken of her recently.

[mirage]

I loved the images of Celine on stage doing her ballet/dance moves.

Would have loved to see more of that. There is so much private footage.

 

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[scielle]

So circling back to this interview. Do we know its provenance? Who's asking the questions? Seems to have come out of nowhere, no promo, seems like a leak.

I honestly can't believe we got it... I've said it before but just can't shake that it feels like we're a fly on the wall of a therapy session. I wonder if this is what it was like when she was talking to Irene, and Irene had to then take all that free-association, train-of-thought monologue and cut it into a cohesive story.

 

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[Nmj]

So circling back to this interview. Do we know its provenance? Who's asking the questions? Seems to have come out of nowhere, no promo, seems like a leak.

I honestly can't believe we got it... I've said it before but just can't shake that it feels like we're a fly on the wall of a therapy session. I wonder if this is what it was like when she was talking to Irene, and Irene had to then take all that free-association, train-of-thought monologue and cut it into a cohesive story.

 

 

I literally just watched this again this morning… It’s by far my favorite piece of press from Celine, whether it was intentional or leak.

There was a part in there where she basically said, I’m doing this so people know I’m not dead and I don’t have “Covid”. Does anyone like me think that by covid that she meant, she isn’t vax injured. Because that’s the only rumor I remember, Nobody ever said that she canceled shows because she had or has Covid. I think it was a clap back at the conspiracy theories.

 

Edited June 27, 2024 at 11:59 AM by Nmj

[scielle]

It finally occured to me that the title of the documentary might have been a reference to the song "Who I Am" that she sings in the film. Ofc it fits so well with the themes of exploring her identity

 

Irene talked about the title in her Salon interview: https://www.salon.com/2024/06/25/i-am-celine-dion-irene-taylor/

 

“Celine at one point talks about her voice being the conductor of her life and taking the reins. Now her voice is being taken away from her. At what point did you know that this was a sort of rumination on identity as a project? And when was the film's title first realized?

 

Pretty late. I came up with the title "I Am" pretty late. But it did have to do with two moments in the film. One is when she is talking about her childhood with her family being the youngest of 14 kids. And she's basically making the point, "I didn't make this up. This is who I am. I've always been this way." And she talks about her personality as a child. And she talks about how her mother taught her to be a performer and be a professional. And she is, she was that person. She still is that person. So she literally says the phrase, "I am, I am this way. This is who I am."

 

There's a second thing when she, towards the end of the film, after she has this extraordinarily excruciating medical episode, she hears one of her favorite songs, which is a song called "Who I Am." And it was not lost on me that she didn't quite know all the lyrics. And it's sweet. You see her flubbing the lyrics a little bit. But man, when that refrain comes in, she knows exactly what the lyrics are. "Who I am, who I am, who I am. This is who I am."

 

And so I thought she also really commands a strong title of the film. And there was conversation in my brain a lot whether to include her name in the film. Because she questions who Celine Dion really is. Is Celine Dion still existing? Because her voice can no longer be the conductor. But I actually think she's realizing, and I certainly feel this way, her voice can still be a conductor. She's just going to sing differently.”

[Céline RO]

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Also when recording, normally she goes to the Vegas studio at Palms right? But this looked like they set it up just for her.

 

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It looks like the place where she recorded “Winter Song”.

 

https://youtu.be/xL0HndB3O7U

[scielle]

Great interview with Dr. Piquet: https://uk.news.yahoo.com/celine-dion-doctor-interview-exclusive-121227032.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAACeL0RsC87hLhEbGzQr-HNr65a9kCyGj5ktLFu2-FrFzwLVutKpb1d3uTrLQhr6pkaMOJBXLchJl_na7RgAhqhIQ9UOu8VsGMenif3-nNFSp1DVI4cghpCybjKBZShYQtXi3svqYr1Ou2GcrC-ZueWjl-Kl1wE3Cl3P90ZG3GPuw

 

(Sorry, long post, but I feel it’s an important one.)

 

“Speaking exclusively to Yahoo, Dr Piquet shared her admiration for the singing legend sharing the footage in the Prime Video film. "It just makes the disease so incredibly real to people. A lot of times we say a picture is worth 1000 words but a video of someone being so vulnerable and in the worst moments is beyond words," she said. "I was there for the premiere last week and people were shocked. It was incredible how vulnerable she was in that situation and filmed that."

 

At that I Am: Celine Dion screening in New York City, Dion credited Dr Piquet for "replacing her fear with hope". The doctor said of the moment: "Oh my God, it was beautiful. It was just amazing to hear that and now I feel like it's become almost a tagline here at the university."

 

She added: "I've been working with Celine and her and her team have been very, very happy with the progress that she's made and so it was a little serendipitous."

 

It's clear the crisis footage has had a huge impact. The music legend has been praised for her bravery in sharing this moment with the world after Dion didn't want the crisis cut from I Am: Celine Dion. "I'm already hearing from patients that was incredible to them," Dr Piquet said.

 

"I've had patients ask me, 'Have you ever seen anything like this before?' And yes, we see this with the disease and with the documentary airing, it's been less than 24 hours, and I've already had patients reach out to me to say, 'Oh my God, I can't believe'. They understand that moment with her and they could feel that moment with her and it's hard to put into words."

 

Although the word "seizure" is used by one of the medics during the moment, Dr Piquet lifted the lid on what is actually happening while Dion is having a crisis. She said: "I know at one point in the film, they use the word seizure but it's not a seizure. This is unique to Stiff Person Syndrome where your nervous system becomes completely overwhelmed and basically shuts down."

 

She further explained: "It often starts with a trigger that we can see like the muscle cramps and spasms. I believe in the video it started in her foot. Because of that increased stress, anxiety and the overwhelming of the nervous system, she had a muscle spasm that involved her entire body.

 

"Her body was locking up on her and we call that a person's syndrome crisis and it's different from a seizure where a seizure, you lose that consciousness, you have electrographic changes in the brain. We're not seeing the same thing here.

 

"We're just seeing a complete overwhelming of the nervous system where you can't actually coordinate movements because everything's just kind of been frozen."

 

Also in I Am: Celine Dion, Dion breaks down in tears after demonstrating her struggle to sing. However, the musician vowed never to give up at the end of the documentary film saying: "If I can't run, I'll walk, and if I can't walk, I'll crawl but I won’t stop. I won’t stop."

 

Dr Piquet echoed this as she said Dion was "determined" and "working incredibly hard" to get back on stage. "I can tell you like many of my patients with the Stiff Person's Syndrome, she is working incredibly hard," she said. "She is determined. She is working incredibly hard to get back on that stage."

 

She added: "She is an incredible inspiration to her fans and her life is singing and I think that's very clear that's her identity in the documentary. And so being able to get back to what she loves to do, that's what she needs. That defines her."

 

Dr Piquet explained why Stiff Person Syndrome affects singing. "When you sing there's a lot of chest expansions that goes into that," she said. "It's not uncommon to see the stiff person syndrome muscle spasms that occur in the chest, the back and the belly."

 

She said: "You can imagine if you are having stiffness and muscle spasms involving your chest and around the ribs, you can't bring in the air into those lungs and make that same kind of singing quality. So she's been struggling with a lot of spasms in the chest and that's been a big impact and then vocal cords themselves, that's all muscle movement in the throat and coordinating those muscle movements."

 

Speaking with great enthusiasm, Dr Piquet celebrated the I Am: Celine Dion documentary as a big step forward in raising awareness about Stiff Person Syndrome. She said: "This documentary is gonna be huge just for the public to understand this disease. And the first step in learning more about rare disorders like SPS is understanding the disease better because when we recognise the disease, diagnose the disease sooner then we can treat patients better.

[…]

She said: "I had the incredible honour being awarded the Celine Dion Foundation Endowed Chair in Autoimmune Neurology. We're gonna continue to work together with her medical treatments. But this is going to expand the work we can do clinically as well as our research at the University of Colorado."

 

She added: "It's hard to put into words but it was probably one of the most amazing moments in my career."”

 

Edited June 27, 2024 at 12:53 PM by scielle

[Céline RO]

So circling back to this interview. Do we know its provenance? Who's asking the questions? Seems to have come out of nowhere, no promo, seems like a leak.

I honestly can't believe we got it... I've said it before but just can't shake that it feels like we're a fly on the wall of a therapy session. I wonder if this is what it was like when she was talking to Irene, and Irene had to then take all that free-association, train-of-thought monologue and cut it into a cohesive story.

 

I think they just did these standard “interviews” which is just TC putting out their ideal version, with their own questions, of what Céline has to say about the project. They did the same for the Courage album, later posting it on her YouTube channel. There’s the version in French too:

 

[Céline RO]

Also, I don’t get why people are so unhappy about the John Farnham part. It’s not even that long, goes by very quickly, and it’s just part of capturing Céline’s day-to-day life on camera. That’s what she was doing on that day, and they were there to film it.

 

By the way, I think John Farnham is an absolutely exceptional singer and, when listening to his live versions of “Help”, you can tell Céline was influenced by him, her vocal stylings that is. The similarity is striking.

[tshlw]

He has this seductive look

 

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I don't think he looks seductive looks like someone who is full of himself.

[rathnakumar]

I'm soooo happy the documentary is #1 in over 38 countries! Céline needs this win! ❤️

[jpatdeleon09]

 

 

I don't think he looks seductive looks like someone who is full of himself.

 

🤣

[scielle]

I'm soooo happy the documentary is #1 in over 38 countries! Céline needs this win! ❤️

 

And it proves to the industry that she's still very much bankable, globally. This, the Hoda interview ratings, plus really high viewership for all the other "exclusive" interviews. She's still a major draw, and I think more beloved than ever. Sony just needs to do a proper job with her recording career, because the way they handled Courage was pitiful.

[Ajax]

Great interview with Dr. Piquet: https://uk.news.yaho...E3Cl3P90ZG3GPuw

 

(Sorry, long post, but I feel it's an important one.)

 

"Speaking exclusively to Yahoo, Dr Piquet shared her admiration for the singing legend sharing the footage in the Prime Video film. "It just makes the disease so incredibly real to people. A lot of times we say a picture is worth 1000 words but a video of someone being so vulnerable and in the worst moments is beyond words," she said. "I was there for the premiere last week and people were shocked. It was incredible how vulnerable she was in that situation and filmed that."

 

At that I Am: Celine Dion screening in New York City, Dion credited Dr Piquet for "replacing her fear with hope". The doctor said of the moment: "Oh my God, it was beautiful. It was just amazing to hear that and now I feel like it's become almost a tagline here at the university."

 

She added: "I've been working with Celine and her and her team have been very, very happy with the progress that she's made and so it was a little serendipitous."

 

It's clear the crisis footage has had a huge impact. The music legend has been praised for her bravery in sharing this moment with the world after Dion didn't want the crisis cut from I Am: Celine Dion. "I'm already hearing from patients that was incredible to them," Dr Piquet said.

 

"I've had patients ask me, 'Have you ever seen anything like this before?' And yes, we see this with the disease and with the documentary airing, it's been less than 24 hours, and I've already had patients reach out to me to say, 'Oh my God, I can't believe'. They understand that moment with her and they could feel that moment with her and it's hard to put into words."

 

Although the word "seizure" is used by one of the medics during the moment, Dr Piquet lifted the lid on what is actually happening while Dion is having a crisis. She said: "I know at one point in the film, they use the word seizure but it's not a seizure. This is unique to Stiff Person Syndrome where your nervous system becomes completely overwhelmed and basically shuts down."

 

She further explained: "It often starts with a trigger that we can see like the muscle cramps and spasms. I believe in the video it started in her foot. Because of that increased stress, anxiety and the overwhelming of the nervous system, she had a muscle spasm that involved her entire body.

 

"Her body was locking up on her and we call that a person's syndrome crisis and it's different from a seizure where a seizure, you lose that consciousness, you have electrographic changes in the brain. We're not seeing the same thing here.

 

"We're just seeing a complete overwhelming of the nervous system where you can't actually coordinate movements because everything's just kind of been frozen."

 

Also in I Am: Celine Dion, Dion breaks down in tears after demonstrating her struggle to sing. However, the musician vowed never to give up at the end of the documentary film saying: "If I can't run, I'll walk, and if I can't walk, I'll crawl but I won't stop. I won't stop."

 

Dr Piquet echoed this as she said Dion was "determined" and "working incredibly hard" to get back on stage. "I can tell you like many of my patients with the Stiff Person's Syndrome, she is working incredibly hard," she said. "She is determined. She is working incredibly hard to get back on that stage."

 

She added: "She is an incredible inspiration to her fans and her life is singing and I think that's very clear that's her identity in the documentary. And so being able to get back to what she loves to do, that's what she needs. That defines her."

 

Dr Piquet explained why Stiff Person Syndrome affects singing. "When you sing there's a lot of chest expansions that goes into that," she said. "It's not uncommon to see the stiff person syndrome muscle spasms that occur in the chest, the back and the belly."

 

She said: "You can imagine if you are having stiffness and muscle spasms involving your chest and around the ribs, you can't bring in the air into those lungs and make that same kind of singing quality. So she's been struggling with a lot of spasms in the chest and that's been a big impact and then vocal cords themselves, that's all muscle movement in the throat and coordinating those muscle movements."

 

Speaking with great enthusiasm, Dr Piquet celebrated the I Am: Celine Dion documentary as a big step forward in raising awareness about Stiff Person Syndrome. She said: "This documentary is gonna be huge just for the public to understand this disease. And the first step in learning more about rare disorders like SPS is understanding the disease better because when we recognise the disease, diagnose the disease sooner then we can treat patients better.

[…]

She said: "I had the incredible honour being awarded the Celine Dion Foundation Endowed Chair in Autoimmune Neurology. We're gonna continue to work together with her medical treatments. But this is going to expand the work we can do clinically as well as our research at the University of Colorado."

 

She added: "It's hard to put into words but it was probably one of the most amazing moments in my career.""

 

 

Really Interesting. All hopes and money are in Dr Piquet's hand actually. I hope she has the stature for that. I don't know what this doctor in France worth. But I hope Dr Piquet will reach out to him eventually and to other people in the world to join research, that's how it work for fundamental work.

[Nmj]

 

Sony just needs to do a proper job with her recording career, because the way they handled Courage was pitiful.

 

Sony has dropped the ball, time and time again but I’m beginning to think the lack of promotion for the Courage album was because of Celine? Maybe she was in too much spasms that to do any more engagements other than the shows themselves was too much. We already know she was taking Valium at that point just to have a voice?

[minolli]

And it proves to the industry that she's still very much bankable, globally. This, the Hoda interview ratings, plus really high viewership for all the other "exclusive" interviews. She's still a major draw, and I think more beloved than ever. Sony just needs to do a proper job with her recording career, because the way they handled Courage was pitiful.

 

It feels like this "resetting" of her career/expectations on her might be the ideal time for her to take a more introspective approach with her music, especially in English. We've been saying it for years, but if she can find that collaborator in English that she found with JJG in French, and (when/if she feels ready and capable) record a thoughful, personal, more intimate record without all the bombast, she may finally receive the flowers that she has long deserved among the anglophone world as an interpreter of song.

[tshlw]

Was looking some stuff up and watched when Wyn Starks was auditioning on AGT with his song Who I Am and turns out he lost his twin brother. Man that is so sad. The song is so good and so powerful.

[rfkavanagh]

I don't think he looks seductive looks like someone who is full of himself.

 

Stjepan Hauser was always the "bad boy" in 2Cellos (in as much as you can have a bad boy in a two-person cello band!), and yes, he's certainly aware of how hot he is, but he's also always been in on the joke. He goes so over the top with the seductive image - even more so since he went solo - that he's practically in bodice-ripping novel cover territory, but he's also always seemed to be a good guy overall. He probably shouldn't have kept going with the awkward requests to Céline to sing with him at the concert, but he got carried away and probably saw the best opportunity he'll ever have to try to make a collaboration happen - I'm sure his people will follow up behind the scenes with just as much determination as René did to make the Streisand duet happen!

 

Both members of 2Cellos are insanely good-looking and always invested a lot of money into their music videos to show it! But they're also both extremely impressive cello virtuosos and excellent live performers. They covered My Heart Will Go On on their 2017 album, Score:

 

[ewh12]

And it proves to the industry that she's still very much bankable, globally. This, the Hoda interview ratings, plus really high viewership for all the other "exclusive" interviews. She's still a major draw, and I think more beloved than ever. Sony just needs to do a proper job with her recording career, because the way they handled Courage was pitiful.

 

Not just that but, I think Célines management hasn't done a great job pushing her. The record industry is political and even if you're bankable, it still doesn't mean you will get priority in budgets, promotion etc. especially if you are a woman of a certain age. The record company will always try to capitalize on someone younger who, and especially in the social age, can create their own promotion on their own with less money. To be fair, I don't think Céline wanted to rock the boat, and wanted people she could trust such as Dave Platel and Denis Savage until she got to a point someone new that she could trust would come along and even then, it was through her trusted relationship with AEG, that manifested into her current team.

 

Going forward, I hope she can get the kind of support she needs. Now that she has a #1 documentary around the world, I think she will have enough political capital within the boardrooms to get priority and the kind of machinery she needs, to stay current in the recording industry.

[scielle]

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Elamin wrote that New York Times opinion piece a few days ago and he's also the host of CBC's Commotion radio show/ podcast.

 

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Edited June 27, 2024 at 04:45 PM by scielle

[scielle]

Looks like it's still the #1 movie on Amazon Video worldwide, and it's streaming better than Bridgerton, which is damn good!

https://flixpatrol.com/top10/

https://flixpatrol.com/top10/amazon-prime/

[Nmj]

Looks like it's still the #1 movie on Amazon Video worldwide, and it's streaming better than Bridgerton, which is damn good!

https://flixpatrol.com/top10/

https://flixpatrol.com/top10/amazon-prime/

 

I knew it would be a success but I’m surprised at the magnitude of its success. Don’t want to wish this era away too quick but I’m ready for the next move!

Edited June 27, 2024 at 05:05 PM by Nmj

[Gicedi]

Jacques Veneruso

 

I saw this film recently, I am Céline Dion. It’s so beautiful and painful at the same time. Wonderful to see you again today, and to explore the incredible stages of your life. Painful to follow the trials you are undergoing at this moment and to tell me that, during all these years when I had the honor of sharing these magical moments of music and friendship, you were already suffering and that, like all those who were with us, didn't realize anything. This film, in all its truth and its letting go, is so you. A woman who has led her life with all the strength and will it takes to reach the highest, with your magnificent entourage of course, and who is leading yet another fight. And also a fragile and completely abandoned being in the hands of the caregivers who take care of her during crises. You have always exposed your life but now I know that it goes much further. It shows what millions of people experience who do not have the opportunity to express their pain, their doubts and their anxieties in the face of illness. It's so you, and we see what you are deep down, in all these images of your life yesterday and today, much more, of course, than this ridiculous film which was supposed to pay homage to you a few years ago. years. Thank you, on behalf of everything we have shared and the pride I have in having written and composed for the greatest French-speaking artist of all time. And I'll see you tomorrow ��❤️��

 

 

J’ai vu ce film récemment,I am Céline Dion. C’est tellement magnifique et douloureux à la fois. Magnifique de te revoir aujourd’hui,et parcourir les incroyables étapes de ta vie. Douloureux de suivre les épreuves que tu subis en ce moment et me dire que,pendant toutes ces années où j’ai eu l’honneur de partager ces moments magiques de musique et d’amitié,tu souffrais déjà et que,moi comme tous ceux qui étaient avec nous,ne nous rendions compte de rien. Ce film,dans toute sa vérité et son lâcher prise,c’est tellement toi. Une femme qui a mené sa vie avec toute la force et la volonté qu’il faut pour arriver au plus haut,avec ton magnifique entourage bien sûr,et qui mène de front un combat de plus. Et aussi un être fragile et complètement abandonnée entre les mains des soignants qui s’occupent d’elle lors des crises. Tu as toujours exposé ta vie mais là je sais que cela va beaucoup plus loin. C’est montrer ce que vivent des millions de gens qui n’ont pas la possibilité de témoigner leurs douleurs,leurs doutes et leurs angoisses devant la maladie. C’est tellement toi,et on voit ce que tu es au plus profond,dans toutes ces images de ta vie hier et aujourd’hui,bien plus,bien sûr,que ce ridicule film qui était censé te rendre hommage il y a quelques années. Merci,au nom de tout ce que nous avons partagé et la fierté que j’ai d’avoir écrit et composé pour la plus grande artiste francophone de tous les temps. Et je te dis à demain ��❤️��

Edited June 27, 2024 at 05:42 PM by Gicedi

[CourageProject]

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C8Vb_QPJ7YH/?igsh=MXJhYzlyNmNwYW9leQ==

 

 

"MAKE JONAS' Stiff" NOO😭

[tshlw]

https://www.instagra...zlyNmNwYW9leQ==

 

 

"MAKE JONAS' Stiff" NOO

 

Make the orange Cheeto head that should be in jail have it, that would be justice.

[LukeD]

MsMojo uploaded a video ''10 emotional reveals in I Am:Celine Dion'' yesterday.

 

It has already surpassed 50k views! Even more than their Taylor Swift compilation uploaded 2 days ago that has not reached 10k yet. Really interesting.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEDTShmGkAI

Edited June 27, 2024 at 05:56 PM by LukeD

[rodrigofreitas]

I knew it would be a success but I'm surprised at the magnitude of its success. Don't want to wish this era away too quick but I'm ready for the next move!

 

What does the number 782 mean?

Edited June 27, 2024 at 06:05 PM by rodrigofreitas

[LukeD]

Access Hollywood also uploaded a very good recap of the documentary yesterday that has already reached 350k views.

 

[LukeD]

''I think I was very good'' is the line that hit me the most in the entire documentary. So much pain and defeat when she says so.

 

She is also very humble not to describe herself as ''outstanding'' that we all view her as.

[jpatdeleon09]

''I think I was very good'' is the line that hit me the most in the entire documentary. So much pain and defeat when she says so.

 

She is also very humble not to describe herself as ''outstanding'' that we all view her as.

 

True! that made me tear so much! You really feel what she's feeling when she said that