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

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:

Factual errors: In the scenes where Celine wins the Eurovision Song Contest, she is performing her winning song in English to the audience in Dublin. However in real life she performed the song in French, as back then all participants in the Eurovision could only sing in an official language from the country they were representing. Therefore, as English is not an official language of Switzerland, she would not have been allowed perform in that language. Indeed, her winning song was never actually recorded in English.

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.