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I saw it last night and while I was disturbed to see the “episode” scene, the saddest scene for me was watching her in the recording studio. Through archival footage we saw her hitting grand slams in “one take”, yet here she was doing take after take trying to get through the first lines of “Love Again”. The look of disappointment in her eyes was the closest I got to crying (though I did not).

For me the highlights were the home videos of her pregnancies and taking her shoes off to dance in her family hoedown. Those did more to humanize her (for me, anyway) than the out-of-context viral clips from Jimmy Fallon and James Corden. The only reason for those clips IMO was to lighten the mood, which I understand… I just wish they were given greater context.

Other favorite scenes are the juxtaposition of R.C. in the swing, closeups of her dog Bear looking lazy af, and the scene of her vacuuming her sofa. One reviewer commented on the latter, and I can’t agree more : I’d watch a full doc of her switching from mundane house chores to flitting through her warehouse of designer gowns. Something about that is very “Sunset Boulevard”, and thus very camp.

I will watch it again alone (not in the company of my friend, a causal fan) and I do expect to have a more “emotional” experience. This is a *good* documentary that will raise Céline’s profile in the cultural zeitgeist, but I do not expect it to win any awards — unless they are just recognizing Céline & Irene for their bravery. The doc as a whole felt a little incomplete to me. But in the end, I recognize it as the beautiful love letter to fans that it was intended to be.

Edited by Chantemoi, 24 June 2024 - 12:36 AM.


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From Sydney Morning Herald: https://www.smh.com....621-p5jnmo.html
It's behind a paywall so here's the text:

"Becoming a Celine Dion fan had nothing to do with her songs

It’s all coming back to me now. The power, the voice, the sheer cultural dominance of Celine Dion in the 1990s, and just how deeply, crushingly uncool the queen of power ballads was for us teenage boys in a country high school.

The Canadian diva may have scaled the charts with My Heart Will Go On, but when the song became part of the school choir repertoire in year 9 our spirits sank as a diamond necklace might plunge to the bottom of the Atlantic alongside the ill-fated Titanic. That, combined with our droning interpretation of The Rose by Bette Midler, formed the recipe for memories

Then there was that time in year 10 when our phys ed teacher’s mixtape switched from unremarkable guitar-based rock to The Power of Love towards the end of a workout. It still ranks among the most awkward five minutes of my life. The cringe was almost palpable among the sweat and testosterone. It was a time and a place where you’d have to think twice about admitting to enjoying any kind of pop music; less Beauty and the Beast, more The Number of the Beast. The teacher’s reputation never recovered.

There was no denying she was a force to be reckoned with. Dion was so big, so brashy, so bold, she won with sheer volume and a mastery of her instrument few in the pop world have ever matched. She was also easy to ridicule and, in my adolescent attempt to be the next Weird Al Yankovic, I may have penned some joke lyrics to the tune of the biggest of her mega-hits. (And I know in my fridge, that the cheese has gone off ...)

Given this history, a rather unexpected thing happened at the NSW State Library theatre on Thursday night. I fell in love with her.

It happened at some point during a special screening of Irene Taylor’s documentary I Am: Celine Dion (available via Prime Video from Tuesday).
There’s much to enjoy, such as when Dion wanders around a warehouse full of the glitzy memorabilia of her glittering career nattering about the sleeves on her jackets and telling of how she would curl her toes into any shoe she was determined to wear. The shoes never wear her.

She recounts the time her mother disguised her worries about an empty pantry and stretched dough and carrots into enough pie to feed her 14 children. Celine as the youngest of the Dion clan was making her voice heard from a young age, singing at weddings aged five and shooting dirty looks if the guitarist played a bum note. And the moment a heavily pregnant Dion is captured staring at her seemingly never-ending shoe rack despairing at the lack of options is delicious.

Dion fumbles with her medicines, feeds the dog and vacuums after her children. She cries about lying. She rehearses not-quite-truths. It’s showbiz. It’s human. Taylor’s camera captures the framed photographs of Dion’s late husband Rene Angelil. His absence is profound.

The film is at times harrowing. Dion is unsparing about how her body has turned against her as she grapples with a rare autoimmune neurological disorder known as stiff-person syndrome. The condition results in muscle stiffness and spasms, and perhaps most cruelly in Dion’s case it has affected her voice. A voice that for 50 years has been her connection to the world and the millions who have loved to hear it.

She is shown in states of crisis, curled up and unable to do much more than moan as her body is racked with pain. It is heartbreaking. Horrifying. Mesmerising. The camera never flinches. Dion wants us to see.

Her determination, resilience and humour in the face of tragedy and a rare debilitating condition is impressive. The fact such an imperious music icon has shared her most vulnerable moments makes it even more surprising.
I walked away no more a fan of Celine Dion the singer than before. My Heart Will Go On is never going to be on high rotation on my playlist. Awesome as her voice is, her songs will probably never resonate with me as other artists have. They are jewels to admire rather than wear.

But I will never listen to Celine Dion the same way again. I walked away a fan of her as a person."

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Behind a paywall and I haven't been able to get the full text, but:

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View Postscielle, on 24 June 2024 - 04:42 AM, said:

Behind a paywall and I haven't been able to get the full text, but:


Here you go in both French and with Google Translate

«Je suis : Céline Dion», le calvaire derrière les vivats
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Sur Prime Video, Irene Taylor suit le quotidien de la diva victime du syndrome de la personne raide (SPR). Un récit éclairant sur la douleur et la perte de soi, malgré le pathos et les ficelles marketing autour de son come-back.

«I Am : Céline Dion» d’Irene Taylor. (Amazon MGM Studios)
par Sabrina Champenois
publié le 23 juin 2024 à 17h32

Avant, on se cachait pour souffrir, à commencer par les personnalités publiques. Désormais, on le dit, on le montre, s’assumer et témoigner comme victime est devenu un classique, salué comme une démonstration de sincérité et même de courage : exit les faux-semblants, on acte enfin, du fétu jusqu’au puissant, que l’être humain est fragile, fut-il famous. La démarche est perçue comme exemplaire, geste de solidarité avec une communauté (les malades) et de mise en lumière d’une pathologie, avec fort impact pédagogique. Citons, entre autres, les acteurs Michael J. Fox (maladie de Parkinson), Angelina Jolie (porteuse du gène BRCA1 qui prédispose au cancer du sein ou des ovaires), les chanteurs Selena Gomez (lupus), Lady Gaga (fibromyalgie) et Stromae (dépression), et, dans l’Hexagone, Florent Pagny (cancer du poumon), Bernard Tapie (cancer de l’estomac), Lorie (endométriose). Mais le quidam n’est pas en reste, le récit de la douleur, de la lutte, du deuil, est devenu un registre en soi dans l’agora contemporaine, réseaux sociaux en tête.

Tout de même, dans ce flot, on parie que Céline Dion fera la différence. Parce que Céline Dion, sa popularité, sa surface médiatique. Mais aussi vu ce qu’elle donne. Dans ce qui reste un exercice de communication, elle reste une show-woman exceptionnelle. Le témoignage prend ici la forme d’un documentaire d’une heure et 42 minutes, diffusé à partir du 25 juin sur Prime Video.

Chemin de croix
Le titre, Je suis : Céline Dion, fait promesse d’authenticité et de proximité, d’une vue au plus près et au plus vrai. Or, à moins d’avoir vécu dans une grotte depuis une poignée d’années, on sait : la pop star aux 220 millions d’albums écoulés à travers le monde souffre du syndrome de la personne raide (SPR). Cette maladie auto-immune neurologique rare, qui frappe une personne sur un million, se traduit par des spasmes involontaires et une rigidité musculaire invalidants. Le documentaire en montre très vite un aperçu, avec «Céline» embarquée par les secours, gémissante, les membres bloqués. Plus tard, on assiste à la totalité d’une crise : alors que tout semble aller normalement, la diva est prise de spasmes qui bientôt l’envahissent, la terrassent jusqu’à perte de conscience, crise enrayée in extremis par son kiné à l’aide de Valium. La vie de la bourrasque de Las Vegas a viré au chemin de croix.

On l’aura vu par le menu, entretemps : le quotidien de Céline malade est le cœur du film réalisé par l’Américaine Irene Taylor, dont la filmographie tourne autour du deuil, de la maladie et du handicap. La documentariste, qui a filmé la chanteuse pendant un an, procède par une alternance entre «avant» et «après», le calvaire est rythmé par des extraits du conte de fées, de l’ado prodige sortie de nulle part (une famille très nombreuse de Charlemagne, Québec) qui éclate de rire devant sa propre effronterie («Mon rêve ? Etre une star internationale !») à la Master & Commander qui draine les foules extatiques jusque dans le Nevada, performeuse à l’américaine, triomphante. Le contraste est spectaculaire. Depuis le début des années 2020, Céline Dion est l’ombre d’elle-même, ce qu’elle montre sans fards, au sens propre comme figuré : zéro maquillage, les traits tirés, abattue, souvent en pyjama ou avoisinant. L’image de la défaite.

Musée du glamour perdu
La prison est dorée, une méga villa de Las Vegas (grandes baies vitrées, tableaux, sculptures, dressing de malade, high-tech à gogo, piscine, etc.) où s’active le petit personnel, où Céline se soigne à domicile (perfusions, kinésithérapie, repos), où ses fils René-Charles, 23 ans, et les jumeaux Eddy et Nelson, 13 ans, vivent en petits nababs. Mais, riche et puissante, peu importe, sous-tend le film, face au SPR, même Céline Dion est à terre. Ce qu’elle acte elle-même, souvent face caméra, souvent en pleurs, en deuil d’elle-même, sur fond de (trop de) violons tragiques.

Tout a commencé, explique-t-elle, il y a dix-sept ans, avec de premiers spasmes aux cordes vocales. «Un matin, je me suis levée et après le petit-déjeuner, ma voix est devenue plus aiguë, ça m’a fait flipper parce que généralement, quand un chanteur est fatigué, après un concert, sa voix baisse d’un demi-ton ou d’un ton.» La pop star étalon or de «la grande voix», décrit un élastique cassé, et se décrit en athlète amputée, progressivement privée du «fil conducteur de [sa] vie». La pharmacopée (Valium à hautes doses, les tiroirs remplis de fioles entérinent l’imagerie des stars surmédicamentées) n’a finalement plus suffi, jusqu’à ne plus pouvoir marcher. Et la mobilité retrouvée est partielle, l’entraîneuse se traîne, réduite à femme au foyer, qui passe l’aspirateur, qui donne les croquettes au chien fidèle. L’entrepôt où est rassemblé son passé, des tenues de scène aux dessins de ses enfants, est un musée du glamour perdu.

Sans doute consubstantiel à pareil exercice, le pathos est massif, régulièrement pesant, les allergiques au sentimentalisme ne tiendront pas un quart d’heure. Et on sait que ce documentaire s’inscrit dans une stratégie, la préparation d’un potentiel come-back – la rumeur veut même que Céline Dion pourrait être LA sensation des cérémonies qui accompagneront les JO de Paris. Il demeure que même le non-fan peut y trouver son compte et pas seulement par voyeurisme. Certains moments sont vertigineux, notamment quand elle s’essaie en vain à chanter, vacillements autant terribles, cruels, que sublimes.

I Am : Céline Dion d’Irene Taylor, sur Prime Video à partir du 25 juin.


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On Prime Video, Irene Taylor follows the daily life of the diva victim of stiff person syndrome (SPR). An enlightening story about pain and loss of self, despite the pathos and marketing gimmicks surrounding her comeback.

“I Am: Celine Dion” by Irene Taylor. (Amazon MGM Studios)
by Sabrina Champenois
published on June 23, 2024 at 5:32 p.m.

Before, we hid to suffer, starting with public figures. From now on, we say it, we show it, taking responsibility and testifying as a victim has become a classic, hailed as a demonstration of sincerity and even courage: no more pretenses, we finally act, from the scrap to the mighty, that human beings are fragile, even if they were famous . The approach is seen as exemplary, a gesture of solidarity with a community (patients) and highlighting a pathology, with a strong educational impact. Let us cite, among others, the actors Michael J. Fox (Parkinson's disease), Angelina Jolie (carrier of the BRCA1 gene which predisposes to breast or ovarian cancer), the singers Selena Gomez (lupus), Lady Gaga (fibromyalgia) and Stromae (depression), and, in France, Florent Pagny (lung cancer), Bernard Tapie (stomach cancer), Lorie (endometriosis). But the average person is not left out, the story of pain, of struggle, of mourning, has become a register in itself in the contemporary agora, social networks in mind.
All the same, in this flow, we bet that Céline Dion will make the difference. Because Celine Dion, her popularity, her media coverage. But also given what it gives. In what remains a communication exercise, she remains an exceptional showwoman. The testimony here takes the form of a documentary lasting one hour and 42 minutes, broadcast from June 25 on Prime Video.

Stations of the Cross
The title, I am: Céline Dion , promises authenticity and proximity, a closer and truer view. However, unless you have lived in a cave for a handful of years, we know: the pop star with 220 million albums sold worldwide suffers from stiff person syndrome (SPR). This rare neurological autoimmune disease, which affects one in a million people, results in involuntary spasms and disabling muscle rigidity. The documentary quickly shows a glimpse of it, with “Céline” taken away by the emergency services, moaning, her limbs blocked. Later, we witness the entirety of a crisis: while everything seems to be going normally, the diva is seized by spasms which soon invade her, overwhelming her until she loses consciousness, a crisis stopped at the last minute by her physiotherapist at the hospital. help from Valium. Life in the storm of Las Vegas has turned into a station of the cross.

We will have seen it in detail, in the meantime: the daily life of a sick Céline is the heart of the film directed by the American Irene Taylor, whose filmography revolves around mourning, illness and disability. The documentary filmmaker, who filmed the singer for a year, proceeds by alternating between "before" and "after", the ordeal is punctuated by extracts from the fairy tale, of the teenage prodigy coming out of nowhere (a very from Charlemagne, Quebec) who bursts out laughing at her own effrontery ( “My dream? To be an international star!” ) à la Master & Commander who draws ecstatic crowds all the way to Nevada, a triumphant American performer. The contrast is spectacular. Since the beginning of the 2020s, Céline Dion has been a shadow of herself, which she shows unvarnished, both literally and figuratively: zero makeup, drawn features, dejected, often in or near pajamas. The image of defeat.

Museum of Lost Glamor
The prison is golden, a mega villa in Las Vegas (large bay windows, paintings, sculptures, sick dressing room, high-tech galore, swimming pool, etc.) where the small staff is busy, where Céline is treated at home ( infusions, physiotherapy, rest), where her sons René-Charles, 23, and twins Eddy and Nelson, 13, live like little moguls. But, rich and powerful, whatever, underlies the film, in the face of the SPR, even Celine Dion is down. What she does herself, often in front of the camera, often in tears, in mourning for herself, against a backdrop of (too many) tragic violins.

It all started, she explains, seventeen years ago, with the first spasms of the vocal cords. “One morning, I got up and after breakfast, my voice became higher, it freaked me out because usually, when a singer is tired, after a concert, her voice drops by half a tone or of a tone.” The gold standard pop star of “the big voice”, describes a broken rubber band, and describes himself as an amputee athlete, progressively deprived of the “ common thread of [her] life” . The pharmacopoeia (Valium in high doses, the drawers filled with vials confirm the imagery of overmedicated stars) was finally no longer enough, to the point of no longer being able to walk. And the mobility regained is partial, the trainer drags herself, reduced to a housewife, who vacuums, who gives kibble to the faithful dog. The warehouse where her past is collected, from stage outfits to her children's drawings, is a museum of lost glamour.

No doubt consubstantial with such an exercise, the pathos is massive, regularly heavy, those allergic to sentimentalism will not last a quarter of an hour. And we know that this documentary is part of a strategy, the preparation of a potential comeback – rumor even has it that Céline Dion could be THE sensation of the ceremonies which will accompany the Paris Olympics. The fact remains that even the non-fan can find what he is looking for and not just through voyeurism. Some moments are dizzying, notably when she tries in vain to sing, vacillations as terrible, cruel, as sublime.

I Am: Céline Dion by Irene Taylor, on Prime Video from June 25.
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"Cutting between unguarded moments where Dion is in tears—talking through her demanding physical therapy sessions and the many pills she’s dependent on—and flashy scenes where her vocal and physical prowess are on full display for the entire world to enjoy is heartwrenching. But there’s no self-pitying here. The documentary, taking its cue from Dion, is not merely looking backward; there’s a path ahead."

"You want this for her. And, quite selfishly, perhaps, for ourselves. For decades, as the many performance clips showcase, Dion has been a powerhouse whose winning demeanor and honeyed romanticism has long been a balm. If she’s to overcome stiff person syndrome (which affects roughly one person in a million), it’d be proof a resilient spirit (and, perhaps, access to world-class health care) is all you need. It’s a testament to Taylor (and to Dion for sharing her unvarnished story) that I Am: Celine Dion actively works against such neat conclusions."


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IndieWire: 'I Am: Celine Dion' Review: This Documentary Is a Stunner



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Washington Post: ‘I Am: Celine Dion’ captures the superstar at her most vulnerable
The new documentary from Oscar-nominated filmmaker Irene Taylor is an unusually intimate look into the singer’s struggle with stiff-person syndrome.

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View Postscielle, on 24 June 2024 - 12:06 PM, said:

Washington Post: ‘I Am: Celine Dion’ captures the superstar at her most vulnerable
The new documentary from Oscar-nominated filmmaker Irene Taylor is an unusually intimate look into the singer’s struggle with stiff-person syndrome.

Here’s the full article:

Calling Céline Dion one in a million undersells the unlikeliness of her career. What are the odds that the skinny girl with the crooked smile, the youngest of 14 children from a tiny town outside Montreal, would become world-renowned for her powerhouse vocals, breaking records and bringing audiences to tears with some of the century’s most memorable ballads?

These days, after more than three decades in the spotlight, Dion is grappling with less fortunate one-in-a-million odds: In 2022, she announced that she had been diagnosed with stiff-person syndrome, a rare neurological disease that causes muscular rigidity, chronic pain and — in Dion’s case — an inability to sing at the level she once did.

Dion’s struggles with the disorder and her attempts to recover, rehabilitate and return to the stage are the focus of “I Am: Celine Dion,” a documentary by Oscar-nominated filmmaker Irene Taylor that serves as a revealing portrait of an artist who can no longer use the instrument that once brought her and millions around the world so much joy.
“I Am” is also a reminder of just how significant an artist Dion was at the peak of her career, from the versatility and power of her three-octave range to the cultural impact she had on pop music and culture at large. And in the age of tightly controlled music documentaries that capture pop stars at their zeniths, Dion is again paving the way by trading the practiced precision of her performances for glimpses of her most vulnerable moments.

When it was first announced in 2021, the film that would become “I Am” was billed as the “definitive feature” about Dion, covering her life story and career accomplishments. In the film’s final form, that story is told with a broad-strokes approach that keeps the film grounded in Dion’s fraught present.

Much of the documentary takes place at Dion’s gated mansion outside Las Vegas. This is where the singer lives with her twin sons, rarely leaving while she deals with the effects of her condition. Her home is a gilded cage: ornate and elegant but lived-in, full of designer labels, antiques and priceless art, but with medical equipment on view and stacks of pills amid her skin care products.

It is this home from which she reveals, in full-frame close-ups, what she has been dealing with, mostly in secret, for 17 years. At first, her condition manifested as random vocal spasms, reducing the elasticity of her voice, like Play-Doh left out on the counter. A disease of the muscles, tendons and nerves, Dion’s illness progressed, affecting her balance and her ability to walk. But it is her inability to sing that draws her tears: Since she was a girl, her dream — as shared in an early interview — was to be able to sing all of her life. Her dream is now imperiled.

“I Am” reveals what Dion’s life is now, from quotidian moments such as parenting her twins and caring for pets to receiving medical treatment and physical therapies. Her journey to the present is shown through clips drawn from home movies and her decades of concert and TV appearances — memories of her loving but sometimes impoverished family life, singing at her brother’s wedding when she was 5 years old, her rise to international superstar, giving birth to her first son in 2001 — the passage of time marked by the growth of her kids.

At one point, Dion takes the camera crew to a warehouse where material collected from her life, onstage and off, is archived: every designer dress and pair of shoes, road cases and luggage, bins of her children’s toys and artwork. She says it will all “live on” with the same air of melancholy that informs confessions such as, “I think I was very good; I had some stuff that was amazing.” At times, as in this museum to the self, Dion eulogizes herself while still alive.
The film documents how Dion has remained a pop culture fixture in the past decade, from appearances on late night shows to a music video with Deadpool. She also appeared as a fictional version of herself in a 2023 rom-com, “Love Again,” which revolves around a young woman who looks for love after the death of her fiancé.

As Dion is dubbing the “Love Again” dialogue into French, her on-screen counterpart mentions the 2016 death of her husband, manager René Angélil, and she is visibly affected. The film cuts together footage of Angélil’s funeral with a stirring performance of Dion’s now-more-relevant ballad “All By Myself.” (Controversy over the couple’s 26-year age gap, and the fact that Angélil discovered Dion when she was 12, is not covered in the film).

While grieving her husband, Dion spent the past several years grappling with the loss of her vocal abilities. She confesses to having used Valium and other drugs to help her function; she doesn’t sound dramatic, as she fears, when she says she “could have died” during this period, evoking memories of everyone from Elvis to Michael Jackson. She explains how she used tricks to sidestep her issues at concerts, but attributing cancellations to various ailments wasn’t cutting it anymore: “The lie is too heavy now.”

The film climaxes and concludes with Dion’s attempt to record the title track on the “Love Again” soundtrack. After an unsuccessful attempt, she’s able to capture some of that old magic. But the session proves to be a “battering ram” to her nervous system, and a physical therapy session quickly escalates into a medical emergency of spasms and a seizure as Dion groans through a rictus grin. Taylor’s unflinching camera captures the bracing scene, and Dion’s choice to leave the cameras on and include the incident demonstrate a level of vulnerability that pop stars at her level rarely express.

After she recovers from the attack, her physical therapist tells her that this is not the end of her journey. Dion still has hope that she will dance and sing again one day. “If I can’t walk, I’ll crawl, but I won’t stop,” she says, defiant. The odds of that might be one-in-a-million, but that’s nothing new to Céline Dion.

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Probably the most "mixed" review I've seen so far, from The Wrap: https://www.thewrap....e-stiff-person/
The vast majority have been very positive.

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View Postscielle, on 24 June 2024 - 01:31 PM, said:

Probably the most "mixed" review I've seen so far, from The Wrap: https://www.thewrap....e-stiff-person/
The vast majority have been very positive.

Guess I see it different feel it is a nice review and in a way what all the reviews have been saying just a little differently this is not the telling of her career but her facing the possible lost and trying to get back her voice and to the stage and the struggles she has been facing. In all of these reviews I come away with that for Celine what she is her voice and the stage and that lost was and is terrifying and she will do whatever it takes to get back to singing/performing. A moment in time for her not the whole of her life.
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Does anyone have the full telegraph article that says that’s critics have been wrong for so long?

It’s behind a paywall. I’m sure I saw it but with all the news I can’t seem to find it on here.

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View PostPeppercorn1991, on 24 June 2024 - 02:27 PM, said:

Does anyone have the full telegraph article that says that's critics have been wrong for so long?

It's behind a paywall. I'm sure I saw it but with all the news I can't seem to find it on here.

Kev x

See here.

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View Postscielle, on 24 June 2024 - 02:29 PM, said:



See here.

Thank you so much! Really appreciate it!

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There’s now a review topic for this doc. can a mod please clean up this topic now.

Thanks

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View PostShamrock_1982, on 24 June 2024 - 03:28 PM, said:

There’s now a review topic for this doc. can a mod please clean up this topic now.

Thanks

What do you mean? The Reviews thread is intended purely as a central links repository/ quick reference. I intend do continue posting notable excerpts and discussion of them here (much as we have been discussing here thus far).

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It doesn’t need cleaning up imo.

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I’m kind of worried to see the episode scene… like I know it’s going to raise awareness and show her condition, but it’ll be hard to watch I am sure…
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View PostCelineDionFreak, on 24 June 2024 - 04:00 PM, said:

I'm kind of worried to see the episode scene… like I know it's going to raise awareness and show her condition, but it'll be hard to watch I am sure…

Well, the shocking thing is that in reality the whole episode lasted something like 40min to an hour. In the film it's only ~5min or so. Imagine how horrific that must have been.
Irene said she was holding the boom mic which amplified all the sounds, and she could hear Celine breathing throughout but worried she might stop... that' just chilling.

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View Postscielle, on 24 June 2024 - 04:05 PM, said:



Well, the shocking thing is that in reality the whole episode lasted something like 40min to an hour. In the film it's only ~5min or so. Imagine how horrific that must have been.
Irene said she was holding the boom mic which amplified all the sounds, and she could hear Celine breathing throughout but worried she might stop... that' just chilling.
That’s what I’m just in shock of the most I think… like to have an episode for 40 minutes and come out of it and Celine have no recollection. It’s just eery. But I am so glad she’s getting better and better, all while raising awareness.
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You already have a topic for reviews, so let’s keep the reviews in that topic for conversation..   otherwise what’s the point in double posting it just gets annoying… no need when theres already a topic for it for discussion.

Other topics are also a mess recently… mods need to step up and do what they used to on here, or step down and let others do the job.

Not angry but come on, a bit of order and organisation like what we were used to on here isn’t a lot to ask. ;)

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View PostShamrock_1982, on 24 June 2024 - 04:08 PM, said:

Not angry but come on, a bit of order and organisation like what we were used to on here isn't a lot to ask. Posted Image

The intended organization was for that topic to be purely a one-stop links repository, not a discussion topic. Much like the "Recent interview links" topic tshlw started, so it's all in one place and easy to find (thank you so much, by the way!)

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View PostCelineDionFreak, on 24 June 2024 - 04:07 PM, said:

That's what I'm just in shock of the most I think… like to have an episode for 40 minutes and come out of it and Celine have no recollection.

Well, I see a lot of press is now running with the "someone fainted at the Montreal screening" story, never mind that I don't think there's been any confirmation whether it was related or not. Could have been the heat wave, or the person may just have been ill.

Interestingly, of the two screenings I went to over the weekend, only one had a warning re. scenes of medical trauma. As far as I recall, there wasn't one at the premiere, either.

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The doc is discussed on BBC’s Must Watch, about 37min into the podcast.
https://www.bbc.co.u...s/play/p0j66pwn

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17 critic reviews  in now on rotten tomatoes and still at 100%!
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Listening to "who I Am" and crying my eyes out. I can't get over how powerful that final scene is.

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View PostCelineDionFreak, on 24 June 2024 - 04:00 PM, said:

I’m kind of worried to see the episode scene… like I know it’s going to raise awareness and show her condition, but it’ll be hard to watch I am sure…

I’m extremely nervous about it, so much so that I think I’m going to wait until the weekend to watch the documentary on Prime as I’m really worried it will disturb me to no end to see her like that and I think I’ll struggle after it to be totally honest.

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It’s uncomfortable to watch towards the end but she wanted us to see it and look at it this way… look at her now in NYC last week, look how well and happy she was and looked, she’s on the return. :)

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View Postscielle, on 24 June 2024 - 04:18 PM, said:



Well, I see a lot of press is now running with the "someone fainted at the Montreal screening" story, never mind that I don't think there's been any confirmation whether it was related or not. Could have been the heat wave, or the person may just have been ill.

Interestingly, of the two screenings I went to over the weekend, only one had a warning re. scenes of medical trauma. As far as I recall, there wasn't one at the premiere, either.

I guess everyone at the premiere were really shocked that’s why they now give warnings




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