It’s all coming back to me now. The power, the voice, the sheer cultural dominance of Celine Dion in the 1990s, and just how deeply, crushingly uncool the queen of power ballads was for us teenage boys in a country high school., but when the song became part of the school choir repertoire in year 9 our spirits sank as a diamond necklace might plunge to the bottom of the Atlantic alongside the ill-fated Titanic.
She recounts the time her mother disguised her worries about an empty pantry and stretched dough and carrots into enough pie to feed her 14 children. Celine as the youngest of the Dion clan was making her voice heard from a young age, singing at weddings aged five and shooting dirty looks if the guitarist played a bum note. And the moment a heavily pregnant Dion is captured staring at her seemingly never-ending shoe rack despairing at the lack of options is delicious.
The film is at times harrowing. Dion is unsparing about how her body has turned against her as she grapples with a rare autoimmune neurological disorder known as stiff-person syndrome. The condition results in muscle stiffness and spasms, and perhaps most cruelly in Dion’s case it has affected her voice. A voice that for 50 years has been her connection to the world and the millions who have loved to hear it.
She is shown in states of crisis, curled up and unable to do much more than moan as her body is racked with pain. It is heartbreaking. Horrifying. Mesmerising. The camera never flinches. Dion wants us to see. Her determination, resilience and humour in the face of tragedy and a rare debilitating condition is impressive. The fact such an imperious music icon has shared her most vulnerable moments makes it even more surprising.is never going to be on high rotation on my playlist. Awesome as her voice is, her songs will probably never resonate with me as other artists have. They are jewels to admire rather than wear.
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