Céline (2008) (TV)

User Rating:

4.5/10   

Director:

Jeff Woolnough

Writer:

Donald Martin (writer)

Release Date:

10 May 2008 (USA)

Genre:

Drama | Musical

Tagline:

The full length feature film on the extraordinary life of Céline Dion.

Plot:

A biopic on singer Céline Dion. |

Awards:

1 win

Cast

Christine Ghawi	...	Céline Dion
Jodelle Ferland	...	Young Celine
Peter MacNeill	...	Adhemar Dion
Louise Pitre	...	Therese
Mac Fyfe
Natalie Radford
Enrico Colantoni	...	Rene Angelil
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Katie Bergin	...	Sylvie
Tannis Burnett	...	Nun
Tessa Cameron	...	Daughter #2
Shawn Campbell	...	French TV Producer
Michael Facciolo	...	Daniel Dion
Dani Jazzar	...	Dancer
Daniel Karasik	...	Jacques Dion
Austin Macdonald	...	Bully
Grant Nickalls	...	David Foster
Spencer Van Wyck	...	Bully #1
Riley Waldriff	...	Toddler Celine
Samantha Weinstein	...	Margaret

Also Known As:

Céline (France) [fr]

MPAA:

Rated PG for thematic material, smoking, and brief mild language.

Country:

Canada

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Certification:

USA:PG | Australia:PG

Filming Locations:

Cambridge, Ontario, Canada

Company:

Barna-Alper Productions

Goofs:

Anachronisms: The song 'I Feel Too Much' was used when she hadn't recorded it yet. It was on her 'Unison' album, released in 1990. In the movie they play it when she's 18. But, at 18, she had just returned from her break, and had recorded new edgier songs in French with Luc Plamondon's help.

Lots of heart in this movie. Well Done!

It has always been much easier to criticize things than to build them. I find the degree to which some have criticized this film to be amazing . I thought the film quite good. You cannot expect real people to be captured exactly in film, as exact clones do not exist, and all biographical films are by necessity small sketches, as time is so short. This is a very warm story about a great family and a girl who worked her butt off and captured a dream. Perhaps it would have been more technically accurate to tell the story in French, as the first half of her career was all in French, but then 95% of her fans would not understand it. The actors did a marvelous job of showing us this family. Read the book for detail. It is good, and it was written in French, so you can get the detail there. It would be sad to miss this story. It makes your heart glad.