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Celine Dion biopic gets standing ovation at Cannes

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Celine Dion has received a five-minute standing ovation at Cannes film festival.The biopic stars its 57-year-old director Valerie Lemercier.

The filmmaker plays the singer at each stage of her life, including her childhood. It premiered out of competition at the French film festival this week.Aline is described in its trailer as “a fiction freely inspired by the life of Celine Dion”.

However, Variety‘s Ramin Satoodeh has described the film as a “paint-by-numbers biopic.”The film mirrors key details in Dion’s life.

Lemercier’s character, for example, becomes involved with a much older man, while Dion herself married her late manager René Angélil, who was 26 years her senior.It also includes some of Dion’s most prolific songs.

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