"I Am: Celine Dion" documentary - Official Topic

[scielle]

She got some competition!

The Greatest Night In Pop was also a very popular documentary.

And the sound engineer featured in that doc? One Humberto Gatica.

 

[Macaronie]

 

 

 

Interesting. Why Amazon would still spend money on promotion now ? Maybe because they knew about the release of the Hymne à l’Amour and wanted to leverage of the publicity ?

it's an ad for prime (like a "don't miss out" kinda campaign)

[Balao]

Céline with Zorro, Place Clichy métro station

 

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[Ronny83]

[scielle]

Thank you! I’ve stopped checking regularly for anything new from Irene so it’s nice to see she’s still doing promo for this (as part of an award season push, I’m sure). Always so good to hear her talk about it.

[tshlw]

Not sure this was posted before, here is another interview with Irene Taylor

 

The Director's Cut - A DGA Podcast

I Am: Celine Dion with Irene Taylor and Ondi Timoner (Ep. 487)

 

https://www.podchase...ne-ta-221785348

Edited October 27, 2024 at 03:22 AM by tshlw

[scielle]

Not sure this was posted before, here is another interview with Irene Taylor

 

The Director's Cut - A DGA Podcast

I Am: Celine Dion with Irene Taylor and Ondi Timoner (Ep. 487)

 

https://www.podchase...ne-ta-221785348

 

Thank you! Glad this showed up online; didn’t think it would. Probably the best Irene interview to date. Feels like lots of new stuff here.

Amazon is working it.

Edited October 27, 2024 at 04:35 AM by scielle

[tshlw]

Thank you! Probably the best Irene interview to date. Feels like lots of new stuff here.

 

Thought the same thing. I know we knew it but can't imagine how hard it had to be watching Rene dying and dealing with this unknow disease at the same time. Just makes me want to see all things that did not make the film that was filmed.

[Nmj]

 

 

Thought the same thing. I know we knew it but can't imagine how hard it had to be watching Rene dying and dealing with this unknow disease at the same time. Just makes me want to see all things that did not make the film that was filmed.

 

Did she say “her husband saw it” as in an episode?

[scielle]

 

 

Did she say “her husband saw it” as in an episode?

 

Yeah, that’s what I heard. Had to rewind because I, too, did a double take at that bit.

 

 

 

[Nmj]

 

 

Yeah, that’s what I heard. Had to rewind because I, too, did a double take at that bit.

 

I had to re listen a few times…

 

I wonder if Irene misspoke and meant he witnessed her initial symptoms, the vocal spasms?

[tshlw]

Yeah, that's what I heard. Had to rewind because I, too, did a double take at that bit.

 

Yeah made me wonder when and how bad of an episode it was back then. So many questions, that I guess really aren't our business but would love to know.

[tshlw]

I had to re listen a few times…

 

I wonder if Irene misspoke and meant he witnessed her initial symptoms, the vocal spasms?

 

Not sure we will ever know the progression and when the symptoms got worse. Makes watching old interviews hard you wonder how she didn't crack with all that pressure.

[scielle]

I hope we get an updated autobiography one day which answers at least some of these questions. So much has happened in the last decade.

[ryba]

You know what I don't understand? She announced the new residency in 2021 (see below) and by then, the filming of the documentary was already finished. It seems like the docu was suopposed to be released then and she would hit the stage, but somehow it all got postponed for 3 more years, I really wonder why?

 

[valeriociarrocchi]

You know what I don't understand? She announced the new residency in 2021 (see below) and by then, the filming of the documentary was already finished. It seems like the docu was suopposed to be released then and she would hit the stage, but somehow it all got postponed for 3 more years, I really wonder why?

 

 

The doc wasn’t finished. It includes the Love Again recording which took place in Sept/Oct 2022 and that’s when the documentary was presumably finished.

 

 

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[tshlw]

The doc wasn’t finished. It includes the Love Again recording which took place in Sept/Oct 2022 and that’s when the documentary was presumably finished.

 

 

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Yeah they did not actually start filming till after this announcement either very end of 2021 or beginning of 2022 when filming even started and it seemed to last till early 2023.

[lyn]

They’re indeed doing a promo blitz again… Was watching LOTR on prime when an advert showed up 😅 super jarring to jump from frodo fleeing orcs to Celine belting triumphantly

[Ukrfan]

You know what I don't understand? She announced the new residency in 2021 (see below) and by then, the filming of the documentary was already finished. It seems like the docu was suopposed to be released then and she would hit the stage, but somehow it all got postponed for 3 more years, I really wonder why?

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3uoGRBVExc

 

Did she already have crisis scences back then is what I wonder. I would think she'd start having these episodes when they canceled the residency in fall 2021 - that explains why they cancel all the way through February (right?) and not postpone etc. I remember we were all wondering back then why they not delayed but straight away canceled.

[Céline RO]

Did she already have crisis scences back then is what I wonder. I would think she'd start having these episodes when they canceled the residency in fall 2021 - that explains why they cancel all the way through February (right?) and not postpone etc. I remember we were all wondering back then why they not delayed but straight away canceled.

 

I think she’s been having full-on episodes for probably the past ten years. Remember that story of how she had a major episode before a show in Vegas and when she regained awareness of what was going on, they had canceled the show and everyone had gone home? Also the one about René witnessing a crisis? She just didn’t take the time to really work on this issue and instead powered through without the appropriate treatment.

[mirage]

Not sure this was posted before, here is another interview with Irene Taylor

 

The Director's Cut - A DGA Podcast

I Am: Celine Dion with Irene Taylor and Ondi Timoner (Ep. 487)

 

https://www.podchase...ne-ta-221785348

Nice podcast!

Some new bits. Great to get a bit more insight.

 

Would love to see all the material that didn't made it. And yes for more documentaires.

 

Crazy to know now she was battling with this while Rene was so sick.

 

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[ryba]

I don’t know if I want Irene again for another documentary. She kept everything so very short. We only get very short bits and pieces of everything, e.g. the warehouse, I would really like to see what career pieces she stores there, what CDs of her own etc. It was displayed for not even a second in the film. Such a shame. We don’t really get to see her house, because there is a blurry effect on everything. I don’t like that. Yes, I appreciate that we got a docu, because it was high time, but I’m not happy with the end product. We got more insight in the Oprah 2003 docu. Celine elaborated on Maria Callas and it was all cut out. There was no sequence. Everything was all over the place. We don’t even know when the crisis episode took place. Obviously they were bowling, but none of that shows. It looks like she was leaving the recording session. That’s not authentic at all. Edited October 29, 2024 at 06:35 PM by ryba

[CelinesDIVO5]

I don’t know if I want Irene again for another documentary. She kept everything so very short. We only get very short bits and pieces of everything, e.g. the warehouse, I would really like to see what career pieces she stores there, what CDs of her own etc. It was displayed for not even a second in the film. Such a shame. We don’t really get to see her house, because there is a blurry effect on everything. I don’t like that. Yes, I appreciate that we got a docu, because it was high time, but I’m not happy with the end product. We got more insight in the Oprah 2003 docu. Celine elaborated on Maria Callas and it was all cut out. There was no sequence. Everything was all over the place. We don’t even know when the crisis episode took place. Obviously they were bowling, but none of that shows. It looks like she was leaving the recording session. That’s not authentic at all.

 

She was leaving the recording session. The bowling lanes are in the same building. The documentary wasn’t to focus on her career highlights. It was made to highlight what she was going through and how she was coping with the loss of her voice as she knew it. There are plenty of career retrospectives to watch.

[ryba]

She was leaving the recording session. The bowling lanes are in the same building. The documentary wasn't to focus on her career highlights. It was made to highlight what she was going through and how she was coping with the loss of her voice as she knew it. There are plenty of career retrospectives to watch.

no, she has other clothes on.

[smw]

 

 

She was leaving the recording session. The bowling lanes are in the same building. The documentary wasn’t to focus on her career highlights. It was made to highlight what she was going through and how she was coping with the loss of her voice as she knew it. There are plenty of career retrospectives to watch.

 

Right — the documentary was beautifully made and was not geared towards Celine’s biggest fans.

 

Edited October 29, 2024 at 07:38 PM by smw

[Your_Su_Phu]

quoted wrong post Edited October 29, 2024 at 09:12 PM by Your_Su_Phu

[tshlw]

no, she has other clothes on.

 

 

22:15 into the interview, Irene explains how it all plays out it was the second day and within 10 mins of finishing recording.

[Céline RO]

I don’t know if I want Irene again for another documentary. She kept everything so very short. We only get very short bits and pieces of everything, e.g. the warehouse, I would really like to see what career pieces she stores there, what CDs of her own etc. It was displayed for not even a second in the film. Such a shame. We don’t really get to see her house, because there is a blurry effect on everything. I don’t like that. Yes, I appreciate that we got a docu, because it was high time, but I’m not happy with the end product. We got more insight in the Oprah 2003 docu. Celine elaborated on Maria Callas and it was all cut out. There was no sequence. Everything was all over the place. We don’t even know when the crisis episode took place. Obviously they were bowling, but none of that shows. It looks like she was leaving the recording session. That’s not authentic at all.

 

I agree. So much praise for Irene’s work on this project but, frankly, I think it may be the worst official documentary Céline has ever made.

[Céline RO]

It was made to highlight what she was going through and how she was coping with the loss of her voice as she knew it.

 

Except it doesn’t do that, not well at least. Like many have said, the timeline is all over the place - which is not helpful. Also, we see very little of her actual combat with the disease notwithstanding the crisis scene. They should’ve given us more of her training with her therapist, visiting her doctor, working on her voice, all very clearly structured from a chronological standpoint. I feel like the documentary ended up being some sort of hybrid between a career retrospective and trying to showcase Céline’s current (not so current) normal, and failing at both - although ironically it probably works better as a career retrospective. It seems they tried to be weirdly poetic about it when really they should’ve given us a plain storyline.

[ryba]

 

 

Except it doesn’t do that, not well at least. Like many have said, the timeline is all over the place - which is not helpful. Also, we see very little of her actual combat with the disease notwithstanding the crisis scene. They should’ve given us more of her training with her therapist, visiting her doctor, working on her voice, all very clearly structured from a chronological standpoint. I feel like the documentary ended up being some sort of hybrid between a career retrospective and trying to showcase Céline’s current (not so current) normal, and failing at both - although ironically it probably works better as a career retrospective. It seems they tried to be weirdly poetic about it when really they should’ve given us a plain storyline.

agree 100% Edited October 30, 2024 at 08:23 AM by ryba