Two women, two destinies, two images that merge and oppose. Laeticia Hallyday, the discreet, and Céline Dion, the stage of stage, both married a much older man very young, who transformed them. The first remained in the shadow of a sacred monster for a long time, the second took all the light with its René officiating behind the scenes. The two celebrities, now widows, alone at the controls, each draw the storytelling of their lives in its own way: loves, children, career, and especially hard blows.
Two sequences illustrate this common burden, where intimate life participates in the construction of a mythical form of narrative, of which they are both both project managers and hostages. On December 8, on her Instagram account, face camera in tight plan, Céline Dion presented herself in a black dress, plated hair and discreet makeup, to announce the cancellation of her tour in Europe, prevented by the rare disease which Hit for several years.
A moment of truth and emotion which seems almost supernatural at a time when the border between true and false, reality and the image, has gradually erased. A sort of anomaly for this competition “Enterineer”, experienced in the formatted speaking since her adolescence, who therefore engages here, with a tight throat, pinched lips, strangled voice. “Singing is what I have done all my life, and for me not being able to do it is unimaginable.” Who can doubt it?
cumulation of stereotypes
René died in 2016. The colossus of Laeticia Hallyday died five years ago. The public has logically transferred all their attention to the widow. The one who took over the career of “Mamour” in hand (never a French artist has released so many post -mortem albums) also engaged in his transparency in the media. A great unpacking of the intimate whose aim is both to respond to criticism and to make the memory of “jojo” (of which it holds the rights) is to last).
For the promotion of the documentary, directed by William Karel, Johnny by Laeticia (M6), but also of the gigantic exhibition dedicated to the singer, in Brussels, Laeticia Hallyday chose a more traditional format: the head to head interview , on France 2, Saturday December 10, in the program “What era!”. The choice of clothing is also meaningful there. A white jacket embodying purity and hope. A blouse and a black flower spindle to symbolize mourning. One foot in the grave, the other in Saint-Barth. “He left me a lot of bored, but I forgive him, and I try to be worthy,” she said in tears, always with this same smile hanging on the face.
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