present at the first projection in Montreal of his film where she embodies the singer, Valérie Lemercier was ovated by the public.
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“I am moved, very moved. And so happy that you are all remained.” The lights have come back again in the big hall of Maisonneuve in Montreal, where took place on Tuesday, November 23, the first projection North American public of his film, and Valérie Lemerier is relieved. Thirty years she had not gave her feet in Quebec, after an unfortunate experience where she had seen the audience leave her show – the spectators of the Believer era come to see the Humorist Québécoise Claudine Mercier had little tasted to discover this French still unknown.
The actress and director who dared to tackle the “national monument” that Celine Dion in the province did not hide his trac. “It’s the evening where I’m the most afraid, more than Cannes or Paris, she let go, a few minutes before the projection. It’s normal, I’m in his kingdom, it’s about you.”
The laughs in the room when the family God / Dion discovers with pride that at the “Votican” (for the Vatican) the young singer makes a tobacco, the silence collected when the story of love is tied with Guy- Claude / René Angelil and, finally, the long standing ovation greeting the end of the film will have been right with his anxieties.
All-Montreal, the fine flower of the showbiz and the cultural elite – singer Robert Charlebois, whose ordinary song opens and closes the film – alongside the historical fans of Céline, happy winners of an organized contest By the Journal de Montréal to select the best connoisseurs of his songs, do not seem to hold no rigor of freedoms taken with the real life of the singer.
“Movie without maple syrup”
Denise Bombardier, Quebec journalist, an auditor of a biography of the artist, the Enigmatic Céline Dion (Paperback 2009), put both hands on his heart. “It’s an extraordinary film,” she enthuses. “This Frenchman deserves the National Order of Quebec for told so much emotion and accurate the life of Céline, our national diva.” Dressed in a T-shirt with the effigy of Céline Dion, one of his admirers , Vincent Thibault-Côté, confesses having cried four times during the session. “Even his accent [French] did not shocked me,” he admits. Ah, the accent … the great fear of the actress. “You do not,” he assan him Robert Charlebois. “I have been the lowest possible because I think that in France is always too much”, she recognized, a few days earlier. “It’s a movie without maple syrup, without tabarnac, without clergy.”
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