If Celine Dion has not seen Aline, the biopic freely inspired by her life directed by Valérie Lermercier, the singer’s relatives have discovered. The feature film, applauded by critics and the public in France and which will be released in Quebec theaters on Thursday, did not please them.
Claudette Dion, the star’s older sister says she “felt sorry” when she saw the fiction. “My mother never spoke like that to René, and Céline never wanted for anything. We pass for a gang of Bougon [sorte d’équivalent québécois des Bidochons]. I’m sorry, but in Charlemagne, we didn’t have a cabin, and it was always clean in the house, ”she said on the show. The week of 4 Julie, according to comments reported by Press.
✨First, see the comments of Claudette and Michel Dion about the film “Aline”, this evening 9pm on @noovo_ca! pic.twitter.com/Vp1VgnFKUx
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“Even if they wanted to do a kind of comedy, for mom, and even for Celine, it goes too far,” lamented at his side Michel Dion, brother and former manager of the artist.
Aline Dieu is not really Celine Dion
Both also listed several factual errors, such as the fact that she is never lost in the halls of her Las Vegas home – which in Aline however clearly appears as a joke.
Valérie Lermercier has never claimed to make an autobiographical film, which is why the heroine of her film is called Aline Dieu and not Céline Dion. “I didn’t want one of his brothers to tell me: ‘My sweater was blue in 98 and not red,’ she explained to the magazine recently. Society. I was offered to shoot in one of his houses, I refused. The same goes for the village. It was fun reinventing something a little bit. “
The director and actress has delivered her vision, benevolent, of the Quebec star, only has to hope that the first concerned will see the film and perceive his good intentions.