One of the films premiering at this year’s Cannes Film Festival left the audience in tears, and not the kind you weep when you’re watching something sad.
KELLY: The movie has earned these descriptions in part because it’s star, who is 57 years old, plays Celine Dion, who is 53 years old, at nearly every age of the singer’s life, including kindergarten.
It says it’s a fiction freely inspired by her life, but it’s pretty much paint by numbers, you know, sort of going through her entire career and her romance with her husband, who’s named Guy-Claude in this version.
And then when the kid turns around, suddenly it’s this shrunken adult, and it’s very uncanny and strange.
And it kind of – it kind of just pitches into this tone that you’re instantly sort of carried away on this very ridiculous journey.
So she seems to be just like an incredibly devoted fan – really committed, and you’ve got to respect that.
HANDLER: So she lip-syncs to the sounds of a soprano named Victoria Sio, I believe, who does a really good Celine impression.
I watched the trailer for this, and it looked like a – just a straight biopic.
It was – I was on the ride, and I enjoyed it for sure.
HANDLER: Right now, it only has a release date in Europe and in Canada.
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