★★★1/2 There’s something really weird here. But really weird. It is the biography of Céline Dion but with another name. It’s not unusual (there are so many movies like that…). The director and the leading actress are the same person (which is not unusual either). The strange thing is that Lemercier, a great comedian, makes the character at any age thanks to special effects that range from appropriate to disturbing (especially with the preteen Aline). But something else also happens: it is a film built around the commonplaces of the melodrama subgenre “life of an artist”, especially when it is full of tense moments (the illness, the lack of voice, the death, the fall, the return , etc.) without falling into suspicion of a “second degree” or satire. I mean, all of these weirdness, from the visuals to the narratives, are taken seriously and that’s the weirdest thing because that sincerity makes the movie work and it’s not hard to wipe away the tears.
