‘I AM: CELINE DION’ Review: A Raw And Gut-Wrenching Documentary Reveals A Music Superstar Through Her Most Challenging Physical Trauma
deadline.comWhen veteran documentary filmmaker Irene Taylor met Celine Dion via zoom in Winter 2021 about the prospect of doing a docu chronicling her life and career she had no idea where this would ultimately take both the subject and the director.
In fact she confessed she wasn’t really a fan, not familiar with Dion’s personal story or celebrated career selling over 250 million albums or anything else about her.
She only knew a few of the hit songs she had. But they bonded anyway. The director had done many Emmy winning and Oscar nominated movies about Boy Scouts to trees to deafness to Polio, but nothing in this realm, and it certainly has turned into a film it did not start out to be, that neither expected, but now will be shared with the world when it premieres on Prime Video June 25.
Hollywood is full of the movies, many made in the 40’s and 50’s, of major musical stars who go through personal trauma their fans don’t see as they eventualy emerge triumphantly performing again on stage.
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