Her career is impressive and its nice to revisit songs and triumphs from it. She allows relatively unrestricted access to her life in Las Vegas currently which is interesting, she's vulnerable and struggling, seeking a path forward with her art and diagnosis. Its brave. But ultimately there is very little insight about who she is and why she is the way she is. The retrospective element feels like a greatest hits or a video CV. Its watchable but there's very little depth to it. Dion is extremely circumspect about her family, the references to it, her marriage, and her children is all very glancing. She is very upfront about her struggles with STS to the point of uncomfortability, there are a couple extended sequences of her extremely painful episodes, which one can suppose will raise awareness about the condition. But beyond that there is a decided lack of context throughout, it seems clear Dion herself most likely doesn't think about that, doesn't really reflect, its not in her nature. And that's fine but as a film solely about Celine Dion we learn very little about Celine Dion.
Director Irene Taylor is a talented filmmaker, it looks good, the soundtrack slaps, the film has movement and momentum but Taylor either doesn't really interrogate Dion or Dion was only willing to be personal on certain subjects and to a certain degree. That's all fine but the end result is thin and too polished.
Dion's talent and influence is undisputed, who she actually is is still in question.
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