“This is not a documentary”: Valérie Lemercier defends her film criticized by Celine Dion’s family – LCI

She brushed aside the criticism with a wave of the hand. WhileAline has already achieved some 900,000 admissions in France, Valérie Lemercier has defended her film freely inspired by the life of Celine Dion, and which will be released this Friday in Canada. The actress and director was attacked by Claudette and Michel Dion, Celine’s sister and brother, who did not appreciate at all this true-false biopic that they were able to see in preview.

“I don’t recognize the language, I don’t recognize my family, I don’t recognize our roots”, Claudette Dion said on the Noovo channel on Tuesday evening. “Valérie Lemercier took a nasty trip on the back of Celine’s life. (…) My mother never spoke like that to René, and Céline never wanted anything. We look like a gang of let’s grumble “, she regretted.

I don’t want to apologize for making this movie because I like it, this movie– Valérie Lemercier

“I don’t want to apologize for making this film because I like it, this film”, reacted Valérie Lemercier to Press, recalling that Aline is indeed a fiction. “It’s cinema. It’s not a documentary (…). It says at the beginning of the film: there are things which are not true, which are of the order of the imagination of Brigitte Buc and I, who wrote the screenplay “, recalls the actress who lends her features to the main character of her film.

“Yes, it’s true, we didn’t ask Celine Dion by putting a diamond ring in her ice cream in Italy, but that’s a pretty story”, continues Valérie Lemercier who also explains that Céline had 15 houses “but we only see three”. “And I concentrated all the brothers in one because you can’t have 25 main characters in a film. Making a film is also about making choices”, she added.

While recalling that there are other people in Celine Dion’s family who enjoyed the film, she regrets getting slapped on the fingers so “that there have been so many gratuitous and mean teasing that has been said about Celine, about her relationship, over the years.”

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