I strongly appreciated this biopic about Céline Dion the singer. Maybe it's because I don't like her music or her personality, so that I wasn't expecting much from this movie when I started to view it.

The fact that the actors do not look like the real persons is a very good point: whenever a film tries to mimic known figures, the viewer is distracted by any little detail that doesn't match. Here, we don't have to track these unimportant visual details, so we're much involved in the story itself and the psychology of the characters. Also, the songs are not the original versions from Céline Dion, everything has been redone with talent, it's brilliant.

There's a chance a part of the story was romanticised and some mistakes and omissions were done, but I don't care about that. A biopic is not supposed to tell every aspect of every moment in the life of an historical figure. At the end of the movie there is a text that boldly explains that this story is about Céline Dion and that she didn't participate in any way in its production. I find this to be a courageous attitude from the producers, given the number of movies about real people who try to disguise it with the usual warning "any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental" because they just don't want to be sued for public defamation (The Social Network is a famous example).

(Please note that I watched a version dubbed in French for the French public, so that any consideration about erroneous accent was hidden in the version I watched. Also I don't care that the international part of her career was almost eluded, I don't consider Céline Dion to be representative of French culture)

TL;DR This movie is not hand-tailored for the typical Céline Dion fan (and I like that).

I liked it. It got me thinking; otherwise, I wouldn't be writing here. I fell asleep for a few minutes(I was tired; the movie didn't bore me) and suddenly Rene's really bad toupee was replaced with a bald head. What made him take the toupee off? Second question: it says on his bio that Rene married and divorced twice before Celine, not once. Does Celine's mother ever mention that in the movie? Third: I thought the voice-over singer was better than Celine, who's sort of nasaly like Barbara Streisand. Who is Trish O'Brien? I can't find her online.

And now a comment: I love Enrico Colantoni, who played Rene. No matter who he plays, a sleepy lovability surrounds him. He's totally hot in Just Shoot Me!

I understand this is the "American" version of her career, but having been a fan during her early years, I couldn't help but feel insulted by the complete lack of respect towards her French material (which is entirely missing in favor of some new material arranged as if they were rejects from mid 90s recordings) and the people involved in her pre-Unison years. Christopher Neal must be pretty mad that his instrumental work on "Where does my heart beat now" was attributed to David Foster - Neil is quite responsible for the sound that helped Celine breaking in the English market at that time (only one of the Foster tracks off Unison actually made it into single form in Canada and it was the fifth). And who can forget Luc Plamondon before that who agreed to write edgier material for her during her Incognito years but was apparently not worthy of a mention.

Why show them if people don't know them? Well, maybe people would know them if revisionist shows like this would stop rewriting history in favor of household names.

In any case, I'm sure the point was just to make little English girls dream when watching this... but it sure is a slap in the face of the whole French fan-base who carried her to during all these early years.