"Your brother is no to be trusted, Donald." "It's him or me." Saban Films has revealed an official trailer for Dusk for a Hitman, a Quebecois crime thriller arriving in the US to watch on VOD starting in April. This already premiered and originally opened in Canada last year obviously. Set in the late 1970s, the most feared hitman in the Montreal underworld, Donald Lavoie, found himself hunted down by his former accomplices and by a tenacious police officer. Donald finds himself caught in a tightening vise in this film based loosely on a true story. The Montreal crime thriller stars Éric Bruneau as Donald Lavoie, with Benoît Gouin, Rose-Marie Perreault, Sylvain Marcel, Simon Landry-Desy, and Joakim Robillard. This has such an obvious slick and cheesy look and feel to it, even with this guy's mustache being an important part of the performance. It's worth a look if you're into...
- 3/6/2024
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
These should be joyful times for Emma (Sophie Desmarais). She’s thought of as the top of her class and is about to finish a year-long residency conducting for Orchestre Métropolitain in her hometown of Montreal. There’s talk she might even be up for a permanent position––which would work perfectly now that she’s started seeing one of the group’s cellists (Nour Belkhiria’s Naëlle). Emma should be drinking champagne with friends and celebrating with her family because future dreams are about to become her actual present. Yet her agent can’t help but always applaud their work rather than hers. While a red flag normally, the fact that Patrick (Sylvain Marcel) is also her father means the sirens are deafening.
I say that with hindsight, though. Did I think it at the start? No. Because writer-director Chloé Robichaud does a wonderful job writing their dynamic as complex-yet-successful at the beginning.
I say that with hindsight, though. Did I think it at the start? No. Because writer-director Chloé Robichaud does a wonderful job writing their dynamic as complex-yet-successful at the beginning.
- 9/10/2023
- by Jared Mobarak
- The Film Stage
Sophie Desmarais plays talented young conductor wrestling with relationships.
Visit Films has acquired worldwide sales rights excluding Canada for Days Of Happiness, Chloé Robichaud’s upcoming world premiere in TIFF Special Presentations.
Days Of Happiness will premiere on September 9 and stars Sophie Desmarais as Emma, a conductor and rising star on the Montreal stage who has a complicated relationship with her father and agent Patrick.
Emma must confront her emotions if she is to succeed in navigating her career and her romantic relationship with Naëlle, a newly separated cellist and mother of a young boy.
Sylvain Marcel and Nour Belkhiria...
Visit Films has acquired worldwide sales rights excluding Canada for Days Of Happiness, Chloé Robichaud’s upcoming world premiere in TIFF Special Presentations.
Days Of Happiness will premiere on September 9 and stars Sophie Desmarais as Emma, a conductor and rising star on the Montreal stage who has a complicated relationship with her father and agent Patrick.
Emma must confront her emotions if she is to succeed in navigating her career and her romantic relationship with Naëlle, a newly separated cellist and mother of a young boy.
Sylvain Marcel and Nour Belkhiria...
- 8/24/2023
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Bento Box And Boulder Media Strike Services Deal
Fox Entertainment’s animation studio Bento Box Entertainment and Dublin-based animation studio Boulder Media have struck a multi-year production services agreement. Boulder, which Deadline recently revealed had been sold to Australia’s Princess Pictures, will provide production services to numerous primetime animated series housed under the Bento Box banner, including upcoming Fox comedies Krapopolis, from creator Dan Harmon, and Grimsburg, executive produced by and starring Jon Hamm. Boulder will also support production on third-party series and specials produced by Bento Box and also will continue to work with various other studios. “This strategic relationship and shared access between Boulder Media and Bento Box ensures our scope and reach to local artists and creators is truly global as the value of premium animation continues to rise,” said Brett Coker, Chief Operating Officer and Partner of Bento Box, whose Head of Production Dana Cameron will spearhead the partnership.
Fox Entertainment’s animation studio Bento Box Entertainment and Dublin-based animation studio Boulder Media have struck a multi-year production services agreement. Boulder, which Deadline recently revealed had been sold to Australia’s Princess Pictures, will provide production services to numerous primetime animated series housed under the Bento Box banner, including upcoming Fox comedies Krapopolis, from creator Dan Harmon, and Grimsburg, executive produced by and starring Jon Hamm. Boulder will also support production on third-party series and specials produced by Bento Box and also will continue to work with various other studios. “This strategic relationship and shared access between Boulder Media and Bento Box ensures our scope and reach to local artists and creators is truly global as the value of premium animation continues to rise,” said Brett Coker, Chief Operating Officer and Partner of Bento Box, whose Head of Production Dana Cameron will spearhead the partnership.
- 12/1/2022
- by Jesse Whittock
- Deadline Film + TV
Chicago – Patrick McDonald of HollywoodChicago.com appears on “The Morning Mess” with Scott Thompson on Wbgr-fm on April 7th, reviewing “Aline,” a fictional account of the Celine Dion story, in theaters beginning April 8th
Rating: 3.5/5.0
The Celine character is portrayed (and the film is directed) by Valerie Lemercier as Aline Dieu, a Canadian chanteuse from a large family, who breaks through with an extraordinary voice and a love for her much older manager, Guy-Claude. The price of fame seems to be the theme, as Aline tries to live a normal life while being one of the most popular singers in the world.
“Aline” is in theaters beginning April 8th. Featuring Valerie Lemarcier, Sylvain Marcel, Danielle Fichaud, and Roc Lafortune. Screenplay by Valerie Lemercier and Brigitte Buc. Directed by Valerie Lemarcier. Rated “PG-13”
Click Here for Patrick McDonald’s full on-air review of “Aline”
Aline
Photo credit: Samuel Goldwyn Films
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Rating: 3.5/5.0
The Celine character is portrayed (and the film is directed) by Valerie Lemercier as Aline Dieu, a Canadian chanteuse from a large family, who breaks through with an extraordinary voice and a love for her much older manager, Guy-Claude. The price of fame seems to be the theme, as Aline tries to live a normal life while being one of the most popular singers in the world.
“Aline” is in theaters beginning April 8th. Featuring Valerie Lemarcier, Sylvain Marcel, Danielle Fichaud, and Roc Lafortune. Screenplay by Valerie Lemercier and Brigitte Buc. Directed by Valerie Lemarcier. Rated “PG-13”
Click Here for Patrick McDonald’s full on-air review of “Aline”
Aline
Photo credit: Samuel Goldwyn Films
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- 4/8/2022
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
The face of five-year-old Aline looks weirdly mature and toothy as she crawls from under a table at a family wedding to belt out a song early in the film of the same name. French comedian and actress Valérie Lemercier, 58, wrote, directed and stars in Aline and it’s her head on a body altered by special effects in that scene. Roadside Attractions and Samuel Goldwyn Films open the “fiction freely inspired by the life of Céline Dion” in the U.S. this weekend.
Lemercier, a big star in France, won Best Actress at the César Awards in February for the film, where she lends the Canadian-born pop idol a Kristen Wiig-ish vibe. Aline premiered out of competition in Cannes last year. The U.S. release was pushed from an initial date in January.
The story follows Aline Dieu, the youngest of a hardworking, musical French-Canadian couple’s 14 children — a kind of bigger,...
Lemercier, a big star in France, won Best Actress at the César Awards in February for the film, where she lends the Canadian-born pop idol a Kristen Wiig-ish vibe. Aline premiered out of competition in Cannes last year. The U.S. release was pushed from an initial date in January.
The story follows Aline Dieu, the youngest of a hardworking, musical French-Canadian couple’s 14 children — a kind of bigger,...
- 4/8/2022
- by Jill Goldsmith
- Deadline Film + TV
In early 2022 a peculiar challenge took over TikTok that, since, has become one of its most emulated trends. Celebrities like Mandy Moore and Michael Bublé, non-famous people from all over the world, and even a pet or two have taken part in the “Céline Dion challenge,” wherein they are invited to lipsync the chorus of her 1996 hit “It’s All Coming Back to Me Now” in the most dramatic fashion possible. Living rooms are transformed into dreamlike stages using easy-to-find props, women and men of all ages leaving behind their humdrum lives for a second as they reveal glittery outfits that turn them into global divas—all of course with the assistance of friends, lovers, and family members who act as stagehands and makeup / wardrobe assistants. Although the look of the challenge varies from post to post, they all share one thing: a profound sense of love and awe for...
- 4/7/2022
- by Jose Solís
- The Film Stage
There’s nothing as tired as the Hollywood biopic, but “Aline” is no conventional biopic. While the film makes no effort to hide that it is inspired by the life of Celine Dion, the greatest singer since Barbra Streisand and pride and joy of Quebec, there is a very thin layer of distance between the film’s events and Dion’s life. Though it can sometimes read like a Wikipedia entry, the effort by writer, director, and star Valérie Lemercier to fictionalize as much as possible can be chalked up to one thing — respect.
Renaming the singer Aline Dieu and playing the character herself, Lemercier grounds the larger-than-life diva with a down-home quirkiness that feels true to life, even if we don’t know how true it is.
“Aline” begins its rags-to-riches tale in the Quebec countryside, where a working class young couple falls in love over their shared love of music.
Renaming the singer Aline Dieu and playing the character herself, Lemercier grounds the larger-than-life diva with a down-home quirkiness that feels true to life, even if we don’t know how true it is.
“Aline” begins its rags-to-riches tale in the Quebec countryside, where a working class young couple falls in love over their shared love of music.
- 4/7/2022
- by Jude Dry
- Indiewire
Let’s talk about love — and open secrets. Because both are at the heart of what makes Valérie Lemercier’s new film Aline such an oddity, if not quite the oddity that was promised. The New York Times, writing about the movie’s debut at Cannes last year, made Lemercier’s project out to be a curious spectacle: the kind of atypically un-self-serious fare that, through the boldness of its sheer strangeness, “somehow boomerangs back into auteurism.” Vanity Fair called the film “an utter shock.”
What’s more true is...
What’s more true is...
- 4/6/2022
- by K. Austin Collins
- Rollingstone.com
Part fan-fiction, part cosplay, part “What if David Lynch and Amy Sedaris collaborated on a kinda-sorta biopic of Celine Dion,” “Aline” is like nothing you’ve ever seen. And more often than not, that’s a good thing.
Director-star Valérie Lemercier demonstrates a staggering amount of chutzpah in crafting a Celine Dion movie that renames the main character “Aline Dieu” and for taking on the role herself: The fifty-something filmmaker plays the title character from age 7 onward, and while she has a background as a comedian, she dares you not to take this story, or her performance, seriously.
In an era where recent Oscar wins for “Bohemian Rhapsody,” “The Eyes of Tammy Faye” and “King Richard” means we’re looking at another decade of earnest biopics with grandstanding lead roles, Lemercier (who won a César for Best Actress) throws down the gauntlet with this weird and wonderful portrait of an artist.
Director-star Valérie Lemercier demonstrates a staggering amount of chutzpah in crafting a Celine Dion movie that renames the main character “Aline Dieu” and for taking on the role herself: The fifty-something filmmaker plays the title character from age 7 onward, and while she has a background as a comedian, she dares you not to take this story, or her performance, seriously.
In an era where recent Oscar wins for “Bohemian Rhapsody,” “The Eyes of Tammy Faye” and “King Richard” means we’re looking at another decade of earnest biopics with grandstanding lead roles, Lemercier (who won a César for Best Actress) throws down the gauntlet with this weird and wonderful portrait of an artist.
- 4/6/2022
- by Alonso Duralde
- The Wrap
Valérie Lemercier directs and plays both old and young versions of the Canadian singer in a bizarre film that digitally superimposes her face on to the head of a young girl
Here is an utterly bizarre fictionalised biopic of Canadian singing star Céline Dion, whose opening scenes will have audiences screaming and running out of the cinemas the way they were mythically supposed to have done at the Lumière brothers’ first silent movie about the arriving train. Even now, I still can’t believe I have seen it.
Valérie Lemercier (from Claire Denis’s Vendredi Soir) directs and stars, playing Aline Dieu – a made-up version of Dion – the youngest of 14 children in Quebec, all the kids kept in line by their formidable working-class mum Sylvette (Danielle Fichaud). Young Aline shows precocious singing talent and her parents send a demo tape to ageing record producer Guy-Claude Kamar (Sylvain Marcel), a version of the real-life René Angélil,...
Here is an utterly bizarre fictionalised biopic of Canadian singing star Céline Dion, whose opening scenes will have audiences screaming and running out of the cinemas the way they were mythically supposed to have done at the Lumière brothers’ first silent movie about the arriving train. Even now, I still can’t believe I have seen it.
Valérie Lemercier (from Claire Denis’s Vendredi Soir) directs and stars, playing Aline Dieu – a made-up version of Dion – the youngest of 14 children in Quebec, all the kids kept in line by their formidable working-class mum Sylvette (Danielle Fichaud). Young Aline shows precocious singing talent and her parents send a demo tape to ageing record producer Guy-Claude Kamar (Sylvain Marcel), a version of the real-life René Angélil,...
- 3/1/2022
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
This year’s ceremony was uncharacteristically devoid of controversy after politically-charged editions in 2020 and 2021.
Xavier Giannoli’s costume drama Lost Illusions was the big winner at the 47th Cesar awards of France’s Academy of Cinema and Arts and Sciences on Friday evening (25), winning best film, adapted screenplay, costume and supporting actor among others.
The adaptation of Honoré de Balzac’s19th-century novel premiered in competition at Venice last year. It was the frontrunner at the nomination stage, making it into 15 of the 24 César categories.
The other big winner of the evening was Leos Carax’s English-language musical Annette. Carax won best director,...
Xavier Giannoli’s costume drama Lost Illusions was the big winner at the 47th Cesar awards of France’s Academy of Cinema and Arts and Sciences on Friday evening (25), winning best film, adapted screenplay, costume and supporting actor among others.
The adaptation of Honoré de Balzac’s19th-century novel premiered in competition at Venice last year. It was the frontrunner at the nomination stage, making it into 15 of the 24 César categories.
The other big winner of the evening was Leos Carax’s English-language musical Annette. Carax won best director,...
- 2/25/2022
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
Ceremony for awards voted on by 4,363 members of the César academy will take place on February 25.
Xavier Giannoli’s literary adaptation Lost Illusions is the frontrunner in the nomination stage of the 47th edition of France’s César awards, followed by Leos Carax’s Annette and Valérie Lemercier’s Aline.
France’s Academy of Cinema and Arts and Sciences unveiled the nomination list online on Wednesday morning (January 26), ahead of the ceremony scheduled to take place on February 25.
Giannoli’s adaptation of Honoré de Balzac’s eponymous 19th-century novel, which premiered in competition at Venice last year, was nominated in...
Xavier Giannoli’s literary adaptation Lost Illusions is the frontrunner in the nomination stage of the 47th edition of France’s César awards, followed by Leos Carax’s Annette and Valérie Lemercier’s Aline.
France’s Academy of Cinema and Arts and Sciences unveiled the nomination list online on Wednesday morning (January 26), ahead of the ceremony scheduled to take place on February 25.
Giannoli’s adaptation of Honoré de Balzac’s eponymous 19th-century novel, which premiered in competition at Venice last year, was nominated in...
- 1/26/2022
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
Update: Xavier Giannoli’s Illusions Perdues (Lost Illusions) leads nominations for the 2022 César Awards, France’s equivalent to the Oscar. The Venice premiere scored 15 mentions, followed by Leos Carax’s Annette, which opened the Cannes Film Festival last year and has 11 nominations. They are followed by Valérie Lemercier’s Aline, the musical dramedy inspired by the life of Céline Dion which also debuted in Cannes and has 10 nods. (Scroll down for the full list of nominations.)
Interestingly, the three films that France shortlisted for the International Feature Academy Award race came in on the lower end. Cédric Jiminez’s Bac Nord (The Stronghold) took seven nominations, while Audrey Diwan’s Venice Golden Lion winner Happening settles for four, tying Cannes Palme d’Or winner Titane.
The latter was France’s eventual entry to the Oscars, but did not make the shortlist. It was also shut out of the Best Film category at the Césars today.
Interestingly, the three films that France shortlisted for the International Feature Academy Award race came in on the lower end. Cédric Jiminez’s Bac Nord (The Stronghold) took seven nominations, while Audrey Diwan’s Venice Golden Lion winner Happening settles for four, tying Cannes Palme d’Or winner Titane.
The latter was France’s eventual entry to the Oscars, but did not make the shortlist. It was also shut out of the Best Film category at the Césars today.
- 1/26/2022
- by Nancy Tartaglione
- Deadline Film + TV
Xavier Giannoli’s sprawling period piece “Lost Illusions,” Valerie Lemercier’s Celine Dion biopic “Aline” and Leos Carax’s musical romance “Annette” with Marion Cotillard and Adam Driver are leading the race at France’s 47th Cesar Awards, France’s equivalent to the Oscars.
Other top Cesar contenders include Cedric Jimenez’s action-packed cop drama “Bac Nord,” Catherine Corsini’s social drama “La fracture,” Yann Gozlan’s thriller Boite noire,” Jacques Audiard’s contemporary love drama “Paris, 13th District” and Arthur Harari’s WW2-set “Onoda: 10,000 Nights in the Jungle.”
Audrey Diwan’s Venice Golden Lion-winning “Happening” and Julia Ducournau’s Cannes’ Palme d’Or-winning “Titane” earned four nods each.
Vying for 15 Cesar Awards, “Lost Illusions” is a big-budget adaptation of Honoré de Balzac’s masterpiece starring Benjamin Voisin (“Summer of 85”), Cecile de France (“The Young Pope”), Vincent Lacoste (“Victoria”), Xavier Dolan and Jeanne Balibar (“Les Miserables”) all of whom earned nominations.
Other top Cesar contenders include Cedric Jimenez’s action-packed cop drama “Bac Nord,” Catherine Corsini’s social drama “La fracture,” Yann Gozlan’s thriller Boite noire,” Jacques Audiard’s contemporary love drama “Paris, 13th District” and Arthur Harari’s WW2-set “Onoda: 10,000 Nights in the Jungle.”
Audrey Diwan’s Venice Golden Lion-winning “Happening” and Julia Ducournau’s Cannes’ Palme d’Or-winning “Titane” earned four nods each.
Vying for 15 Cesar Awards, “Lost Illusions” is a big-budget adaptation of Honoré de Balzac’s masterpiece starring Benjamin Voisin (“Summer of 85”), Cecile de France (“The Young Pope”), Vincent Lacoste (“Victoria”), Xavier Dolan and Jeanne Balibar (“Les Miserables”) all of whom earned nominations.
- 1/26/2022
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
"You didn't lose me. Love won, that's all." Roadside Attractions has debuted the official US trailer for the film Aline, also known as Aline Dieu! or Aline: The Voice of Love, this strange "unofficial" biopic of Celine Dion. The film is about the life of famous Canadian singer Celine Dion, but they couldn't use her real name so it's called Aline Dieu instead, which just translates to "Aline God" in French. This first premiered at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival earlier this year. Directed by and starring Valérie Lemercier, it's described as "a tribute film and not a caricature film" but I think that's up to everyone who watches to decide. The youngest of a hardworking French-Canadian couple’s 14 children is propelled to global music superstardom in Aline, a fictional musical dramedy freely inspired by the life of Celine Dion, written, directed and starring the two-time César Award winner. It also stars Sylvain Marcel,...
- 12/15/2021
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
“Aline,” the biopic loosely based on French Canadian hitmaker Celine Dion, has been acquired by Roadside Attractions and Samuel Goldwyn Films for U.S. distribution. The critically acclaimed musical comedy-drama world premiered out of competition at the Cannes Film Festival. It will be released theatrically in the U.S. in early 2022.
Lemercier, one of France’s most popular actors and stand-up comedians, directed, co-wrote (with Brigitte But) and stars in the film as Aline Dieu, a singing prodigy (who is meant to be Celine Dion) who grew up in 1960s Quebec surrounded by her tight-knit family of 13 siblings.
When a famous producer, Guy Claude (who is meant to be René Angélil), discovers Aline and her golden voice, he sets out to make her the world’s greatest singer. The crowd-pleasing film charts Aline’s life journey from her childhood through to her sudden rise as a global superstar, showing her impressive transformation.
Lemercier, one of France’s most popular actors and stand-up comedians, directed, co-wrote (with Brigitte But) and stars in the film as Aline Dieu, a singing prodigy (who is meant to be Celine Dion) who grew up in 1960s Quebec surrounded by her tight-knit family of 13 siblings.
When a famous producer, Guy Claude (who is meant to be René Angélil), discovers Aline and her golden voice, he sets out to make her the world’s greatest singer. The crowd-pleasing film charts Aline’s life journey from her childhood through to her sudden rise as a global superstar, showing her impressive transformation.
- 9/27/2021
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
You know who does a really great Céline Dion? Kathy Griffin. Typically withering in her impressions, the comedian clearly has a soft spot for the vocal superstar. She gets the singer’s French-Canadian accent, the unconventional appeal of her open-book private life and that fabulously operatic body language — one hand gesturing toward heaven, the other beating her chest — cultivated over a career of projecting her emotions, like her voice, to the very back row.
If only French actor-director Valérie Lemercier embraced Dion’s inner diva, serving up a bit more humor in her fawning, French-language portrait of the titanic talent. Instead, she has made the cinematic equivalent of “easy listening” adult contemporary music: Easy-on-the-eyes, softer-still-on-the-brain “Aline” is an unabashedly corny homage to Dion and her highly publicized romance with producer-manager René Angélil, in which 57-year-old Lemercier insists on embodying the megastar — rechristened Aline Dieu — from age 12 to present.
It’s...
If only French actor-director Valérie Lemercier embraced Dion’s inner diva, serving up a bit more humor in her fawning, French-language portrait of the titanic talent. Instead, she has made the cinematic equivalent of “easy listening” adult contemporary music: Easy-on-the-eyes, softer-still-on-the-brain “Aline” is an unabashedly corny homage to Dion and her highly publicized romance with producer-manager René Angélil, in which 57-year-old Lemercier insists on embodying the megastar — rechristened Aline Dieu — from age 12 to present.
It’s...
- 7/14/2021
- by Peter Debruge
- Variety Film + TV
Celine Dion did not make the trip to 74th Cannes Film Festival for the premiere of “Aline,” a French musical drama inspired by the life of the Quebecois superstar.
But if she’d attended the premiere on Tuesday night in the South of France, it’s hard to know if she’d be flattered or horrified. The most likely answer? Probably both.
“Aline” is directed by and stars comedian Valerie Lemercier (think of her as the Kristen Wiig or Ana Gasteyer of France) in the title role, a musical sensation known as Aline Dieu.
“Aline” is more of an homage — perhaps the shiniest Lifetime movie to premiere at Cannes — than a roman à clef. From the opening credits, the movie admits to being inspired by Dion’s career, and it often plays like a paint-by-the-numbers biopic.
But not always. Rather than hiring a child actor, Lemercier, who is 57, plays Dion...
But if she’d attended the premiere on Tuesday night in the South of France, it’s hard to know if she’d be flattered or horrified. The most likely answer? Probably both.
“Aline” is directed by and stars comedian Valerie Lemercier (think of her as the Kristen Wiig or Ana Gasteyer of France) in the title role, a musical sensation known as Aline Dieu.
“Aline” is more of an homage — perhaps the shiniest Lifetime movie to premiere at Cannes — than a roman à clef. From the opening credits, the movie admits to being inspired by Dion’s career, and it often plays like a paint-by-the-numbers biopic.
But not always. Rather than hiring a child actor, Lemercier, who is 57, plays Dion...
- 7/13/2021
- by Ramin Setoodeh
- Variety Film + TV
"The venues may be full but I sing for him, Mom." Gaumont has unveiled the first trailer for a strange new biopic titled Aline, also known as Aline Dieu! or Aline: The Voice of Love. This is a film about the life of famous Canadian singer Celine Dion, but because they couldn't figure out how to do it with her name, they decided to change her name to something else - Aline Dieu, which just translates to "Aline God" in French. It's also premiering at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival in the Out of Competition section next month, but has no US release date yet. Directed by and starring Valérie Lemercier as Aline. It's described as "a tribute film and not a caricature film," supposedly, though this trailer makes it seem a bit like a caricature. Aline, a girl from Quebec, has a golden voice and music producer Guy-Claude has big plans for her.
- 6/7/2021
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Because you loved her, Céline Dion’s life is will head to the big screen.
French actress and director Valérie Lemercier will star in The Power of Love, a European biopic about the five-time Grammy winner, Deadline reports.
The film will begin with Dion in the ‘60s, and cover her career through the present day, as well as her relationship with her late manager and husband René Angélil.
The Canadian vocal legend, born in Québec, launched herself into the music business with numerous French-language albums before breaking through in the U.S. with 1990’s Unison, which features hits like “Where...
French actress and director Valérie Lemercier will star in The Power of Love, a European biopic about the five-time Grammy winner, Deadline reports.
The film will begin with Dion in the ‘60s, and cover her career through the present day, as well as her relationship with her late manager and husband René Angélil.
The Canadian vocal legend, born in Québec, launched herself into the music business with numerous French-language albums before breaking through in the U.S. with 1990’s Unison, which features hits like “Where...
- 1/30/2019
- by Dana Rose Falcone
- PEOPLE.com
French actress and director Valérie Lemercier (Avenue Montaigne) is set to star in ambitious European biopic The Power Of Love (Famous) based on the life of Céline Dion. According to producers, the big-budget (around €23M) French-language project has buy in from Canadian star Dion and will feature her songs.
The film will retrace Dion’s life from the 1960’s to the present day and her relationship with her manager and late husband, René Angélil. The last of 14 children, the Canadian singer became a global superstar in the 1990s, selling more than 200M records, including hit singles The Power Of Love, Think Twice and the iconic theme song to Titanic.
Two-time César winner Lemercier will star as a character based on Dion (but won’t sing her songs). She will also direct the project, which is based on her script. Shoot is due to get underway in France this spring. Sylvain Marcel (Mensonges) will play Angélil.
The film will retrace Dion’s life from the 1960’s to the present day and her relationship with her manager and late husband, René Angélil. The last of 14 children, the Canadian singer became a global superstar in the 1990s, selling more than 200M records, including hit singles The Power Of Love, Think Twice and the iconic theme song to Titanic.
Two-time César winner Lemercier will star as a character based on Dion (but won’t sing her songs). She will also direct the project, which is based on her script. Shoot is due to get underway in France this spring. Sylvain Marcel (Mensonges) will play Angélil.
- 1/30/2019
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Reviewed by Annlee Ellingson
(from the 2011 Los Angeles Film Festival)
Directed/written by: Stéphane Lafleur
Starring: Francis La Haye, Fanny Mallette, Michel Daigle, Sylvain Marcel, Suzanne Lemoine and Denis Houle
In his second feature, French-Canadian writer-director Stéphane Lafleur (“Continental, un film sans fusil”) structures the narrative in three chapters around three accidents.
In the first, Maryse (Fanny Mallette) is working at her desk at a manufacturing plant when one of the other workers severs his arm on the job. We don’t see the incident, nor the aftermath up close, experiencing it only from Maryse’s point of view from her office window overlooking the factory floor. Yet the amputation haunts her. She suddenly notices missing limbs wherever she goes (like, say, on undressed store mannequins) and becomes obsessed with her own arm, to the point that she finds herself shopping for coolers she could fit it in should she...
(from the 2011 Los Angeles Film Festival)
Directed/written by: Stéphane Lafleur
Starring: Francis La Haye, Fanny Mallette, Michel Daigle, Sylvain Marcel, Suzanne Lemoine and Denis Houle
In his second feature, French-Canadian writer-director Stéphane Lafleur (“Continental, un film sans fusil”) structures the narrative in three chapters around three accidents.
In the first, Maryse (Fanny Mallette) is working at her desk at a manufacturing plant when one of the other workers severs his arm on the job. We don’t see the incident, nor the aftermath up close, experiencing it only from Maryse’s point of view from her office window overlooking the factory floor. Yet the amputation haunts her. She suddenly notices missing limbs wherever she goes (like, say, on undressed store mannequins) and becomes obsessed with her own arm, to the point that she finds herself shopping for coolers she could fit it in should she...
- 6/27/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Network
Reviewed by Annlee Ellingson
(from the 2011 Los Angeles Film Festival)
Directed/written by: Stéphane Lafleur
Starring: Francis La Haye, Fanny Mallette, Michel Daigle, Sylvain Marcel, Suzanne Lemoine and Denis Houle
In his second feature, French-Canadian writer-director Stéphane Lafleur (“Continental, un film sans fusil”) structures the narrative in three chapters around three accidents.
In the first, Maryse (Fanny Mallette) is working at her desk at a manufacturing plant when one of the other workers severs his arm on the job. We don’t see the incident, nor the aftermath up close, experiencing it only from Maryse’s point of view from her office window overlooking the factory floor. Yet the amputation haunts her. She suddenly notices missing limbs wherever she goes (like, say, on undressed store mannequins) and becomes obsessed with her own arm, to the point that she finds herself shopping for coolers she could fit it in should she...
(from the 2011 Los Angeles Film Festival)
Directed/written by: Stéphane Lafleur
Starring: Francis La Haye, Fanny Mallette, Michel Daigle, Sylvain Marcel, Suzanne Lemoine and Denis Houle
In his second feature, French-Canadian writer-director Stéphane Lafleur (“Continental, un film sans fusil”) structures the narrative in three chapters around three accidents.
In the first, Maryse (Fanny Mallette) is working at her desk at a manufacturing plant when one of the other workers severs his arm on the job. We don’t see the incident, nor the aftermath up close, experiencing it only from Maryse’s point of view from her office window overlooking the factory floor. Yet the amputation haunts her. She suddenly notices missing limbs wherever she goes (like, say, on undressed store mannequins) and becomes obsessed with her own arm, to the point that she finds herself shopping for coolers she could fit it in should she...
- 6/27/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Magazine
via filmindependent.org Narrative Award (for Best Narrative Feature) Winner: Familiar Ground written & directed by Stéphane Lafleur Producers: Luc Déry, Kim McCraw Cast: Francis La Haye, Fanny Mallette, Sylvain Marcel,...
- 6/26/2011
- by Ryan Adams
- AwardsDaily.com
The nominations for the 26th Gémeaux Awards, Quebec's equivalent of the Emmy Awards, have been revealed today.
1. Best dramatic TV series:
* 19-2.
* Les rescapés.
* Malenfant.
* Prozac, La Maladie Du Bonheur.
2. Best soap opera:
* Destinées.
* La promesse.
* Providence.
* Yamaska.
3. Best comedy series:
* La galère.
* Les Parent.
* Mauvais Karma.
* Penthouse 5-0.
* Tout sur moi.
4. Best actor in a dramatic TV series:
* Claude Legault in 19-2.
* Réal Bossé in 19-2.
* Roy Dupuis in Les rescapés.
* Luc Picard in Malenfant.
* Éric Bruneau in Toute la vérité.
5. Best actress in a dramatic TV series:
* Maude Guérin in Belle-Baie.
* Guylaine Tremblay in Les rescapés.
* Julie McClemens in Malenfant.
* Isabelle Blais in Prozac, la maladie du bonheur.
* Maude Guérin in Toute la vérité.
6. Best actor in a soap opera:
* Sébastien Delorme in La promesse.
* Bernard Fortin in Providence.
* Hugo Dubé in Providence.
* Normand d'Amour in Yamasca.
* Denis Bernard in Yamaska.
7. Best actress in a soap opera:
* Marie-Chantal Perron in Destinées.
1. Best dramatic TV series:
* 19-2.
* Les rescapés.
* Malenfant.
* Prozac, La Maladie Du Bonheur.
2. Best soap opera:
* Destinées.
* La promesse.
* Providence.
* Yamaska.
3. Best comedy series:
* La galère.
* Les Parent.
* Mauvais Karma.
* Penthouse 5-0.
* Tout sur moi.
4. Best actor in a dramatic TV series:
* Claude Legault in 19-2.
* Réal Bossé in 19-2.
* Roy Dupuis in Les rescapés.
* Luc Picard in Malenfant.
* Éric Bruneau in Toute la vérité.
5. Best actress in a dramatic TV series:
* Maude Guérin in Belle-Baie.
* Guylaine Tremblay in Les rescapés.
* Julie McClemens in Malenfant.
* Isabelle Blais in Prozac, la maladie du bonheur.
* Maude Guérin in Toute la vérité.
6. Best actor in a soap opera:
* Sébastien Delorme in La promesse.
* Bernard Fortin in Providence.
* Hugo Dubé in Providence.
* Normand d'Amour in Yamasca.
* Denis Bernard in Yamaska.
7. Best actress in a soap opera:
* Marie-Chantal Perron in Destinées.
- 6/16/2011
- by anhkhoido@gmail.com (Anh Khoi Do)
- The Cultural Post
After many months of speculation, Radio-Canada, a French Canadian TV network, has finally confirm that it will renew the procedural series 19-2.
According to Richard Therrien, a journalist from Le Soleil, Jocelyn Deschênes saved the show by joining it as a producer. After all, even though the first season was produced by Luc Châtelain et Pierre Beaudry, Radio-Canada wanted the inclusion of "an experienced producer" in order to renew 19-2 for a second season.
However, Therrien didn't confirm if Châtelain and Beaudry will return for the second season of 19-2 as producers.
The production on the show will begin in Spring 2012.
With the renewal, we will still follow the daily life of two cops from Montreal who happen to be partners (Claude Legault and Réal Bossé). Even though they hate each other, they learn to work together. Moreover, the first season left us when Ben Chartier (Claude Legault), a mole...
According to Richard Therrien, a journalist from Le Soleil, Jocelyn Deschênes saved the show by joining it as a producer. After all, even though the first season was produced by Luc Châtelain et Pierre Beaudry, Radio-Canada wanted the inclusion of "an experienced producer" in order to renew 19-2 for a second season.
However, Therrien didn't confirm if Châtelain and Beaudry will return for the second season of 19-2 as producers.
The production on the show will begin in Spring 2012.
With the renewal, we will still follow the daily life of two cops from Montreal who happen to be partners (Claude Legault and Réal Bossé). Even though they hate each other, they learn to work together. Moreover, the first season left us when Ben Chartier (Claude Legault), a mole...
- 6/16/2011
- by anhkhoido@gmail.com (Anh Khoi Do)
- The Cultural Post
The Los Angeles Film Festival has announced the world premiere of Richard Linklater's Bernie as the opening night film for the 2011 festival.
The film will kick off the festival on June 16 at Regal Cinemas Stadium 14 at L.A. Live. It is written by Skip Hollandsworth and director Linklater and stars Jack Black, Shirley MacLaine, and Matthew McConaughey.
The film follows a beloved mortician (Black) from a small Texas town, even winning over the town's richest, meanest widow (MacLaine). Even after Bernie commits a horrible crime, people still will not utter a bad word against him.
"We're thrilled to be opening the Festival with the world premiere of this delicious black comedy - a treat from one of the most original and exciting voices in independent film, Richard Linklater," said Festival director Rebecca Yeldham. "With its fabulous all-star cast, Bernie is a perfect stage setter for the incredible line-up of...
The film will kick off the festival on June 16 at Regal Cinemas Stadium 14 at L.A. Live. It is written by Skip Hollandsworth and director Linklater and stars Jack Black, Shirley MacLaine, and Matthew McConaughey.
The film follows a beloved mortician (Black) from a small Texas town, even winning over the town's richest, meanest widow (MacLaine). Even after Bernie commits a horrible crime, people still will not utter a bad word against him.
"We're thrilled to be opening the Festival with the world premiere of this delicious black comedy - a treat from one of the most original and exciting voices in independent film, Richard Linklater," said Festival director Rebecca Yeldham. "With its fabulous all-star cast, Bernie is a perfect stage setter for the incredible line-up of...
- 5/30/2011
- by alyssa@mediavine.com (Alyssa Caverley)
- Reel Movie News
The teaser of the upcoming Canadian comedy French Immersion, which will be directed by Kevin Tierney, is now online. The film will be released on Canada Day, which means on July 1rst.
The film was shot in St-Césaire, Québec.
The story takes place in the fictitious small town of Saint-Isidore-du-Coeur-de-Jésus. The inhabitants of the town will welcome for two weeks a group made of four English Canadians and an American from New York in order to give them a "French immersion". While they live with their adoptive family, the five WASPs must follow one rule: not to speak English during their stay.
However, any of the Wasp who manages to escape to their French school's iron fist go in the town's new Indian (as in India) restaurant. In fact, they feel free to speak English. However, the five WASPs learn that every inhabitants of the town are, in actuality, spies...
The film was shot in St-Césaire, Québec.
The story takes place in the fictitious small town of Saint-Isidore-du-Coeur-de-Jésus. The inhabitants of the town will welcome for two weeks a group made of four English Canadians and an American from New York in order to give them a "French immersion". While they live with their adoptive family, the five WASPs must follow one rule: not to speak English during their stay.
However, any of the Wasp who manages to escape to their French school's iron fist go in the town's new Indian (as in India) restaurant. In fact, they feel free to speak English. However, the five WASPs learn that every inhabitants of the town are, in actuality, spies...
- 2/24/2011
- by anhkhoido@gmail.com (Anh Khoi Do)
- The Cultural Post
Yesterday, the first images of the upcoming Canadian comedy French Immersion made their appearance on the web site Lecinema.ca. Note that these pictures were taken on the set of the film in St-Césaire, Quebec.
The story takes place in the fictitious small town of Saint-Isidore-du-Coeur-de-Jésus. The inhabitants of the town will welcome for two weeks a group made of four English Canadians and an American from New York in order to give them a "French immersion". While they live with their adoptive family, the five WASPs must follow one rule: not to speak English during their stay.
However, any of the Wasp who manages to escape to their French school's iron fist go in the town's new Indian (as in India) restaurant. In fact, they feel free to speak English. However, the five WASPs learn that every inhabitants of the town are, in actuality, spies who constantly keep an eye on them.
The story takes place in the fictitious small town of Saint-Isidore-du-Coeur-de-Jésus. The inhabitants of the town will welcome for two weeks a group made of four English Canadians and an American from New York in order to give them a "French immersion". While they live with their adoptive family, the five WASPs must follow one rule: not to speak English during their stay.
However, any of the Wasp who manages to escape to their French school's iron fist go in the town's new Indian (as in India) restaurant. In fact, they feel free to speak English. However, the five WASPs learn that every inhabitants of the town are, in actuality, spies who constantly keep an eye on them.
- 6/5/2010
- by anhkhoido@hotmail.com (Anh Khoi Do)
- The Cultural Post
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