Celine Dion she saw “Aline”, the film of her life imagined by Valérie Lemercier? – LCI

She talks about it like her shoot “the easiest, oddly”. After more than a year of postponement due to a pandemic, Valérie Lemercier finally unveils her film to the French public Aline this Wednesday, November 10. This fake biopic loosely inspired by the life of singer Celine Dion is a marvel that surprisingly transforms the comedian into a superstar diva, but more human than ever.

But has the film reached the main interested party? The question has been asked many times to the director whose answer will disappoint some. “Not yet”, she reveals on the set of 20H of TF1.

Honestly if I were her I wouldn’t rush– Valérie Lemercier on Céline Dion

“I hope she will see him before I die, I hope she will like him”, she slips humorously, adding that she has never even met her. “I dream that she sees the movie”, insists Valérie Lemercier to Leisure TV. Céline Dion is well aware of the project. Because his musical director saw him in Montreal and liked it. And because the star’s French manager saw it and read the script. “She felt the tone, understood it wasn’t mockery”, specifies the humorist who co-wrote the script with great delicacy.

But according to Valérie Lemercier, the manager clarified that she “would not show the film to Celine Dion because she might cry”. “Honestly, if I were her I wouldn’t rush. It’s complicated because she lost loved ones. It’s not really her mother or her husband in the movie, because I changed things. .. “, recognizes the director who chose to write a letter to the artist. “I tell her again that I can show her the movie when and where she wants “, she insists. Céline, if you read us …

MODIFY AND ACCEPT ALL