If they are not likely to see Celine Dion in concert anytime soon, her fans will be able to admire her... in the cinema. Coincidentally, the announcement of the cancellation of her European tour comes ten days before the release of "Love Again", in theaters on June 7, a romantic comedy for which she composed a song and in which she plays her own role, with dialogues and situations specially written for the singer.
The feature film, directed by Jim Strouse, has as its heroine a young woman, Mira, played by Priyanka Chopra Jonas, who does not recover from the recent death of her companion, and continues to send him romantic messages on his smartphone. Except that the number of the deceased was reassigned to New Yorker Rob Burn (Sam Heughan). This journalist is quickly intrigued and begins to correspond with her.
At the same time, Rob was appointed by his editorial staff to write a large portrait of Celine Dion. He goes on several dates with the star and they like each other. Rob ends up confiding in Celine about this story of phone messages, and asking for help from this "love expert". The film, blue flower at will, offers some very funny scenes to the singer that should make a lot laugh and touch her fans. Especially since she appears very fit.
Scenes shot separately, Covid forces
The film was shot in 2020, in a team reduced to the extreme. At the time, the Covid pandemic had just hit the planet, and Celine Dion cancelled her concerts in April, like all artists, because no one was allowed to travel anymore. There was no question of health problems yet, and, since she was available at home in Quebec, it was this moment that Jim Strouse chose to shoot these scenes in Canada... without the actor Sam Heughan, with whom she dialogues in these sequences!
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Indeed, Celine Dion will shoot her scenes alone, her partner on screen doing the same in the United Kingdom on his side. And their meetings will be reassembled thanks to post-production artifices. A real success in the end, because on the screen, we see only fire. If the film then took so long to be released, it is again because the pandemic slowed down its manufacturing process, but also for reasons of distribution schedule. It finally arrives in theaters in ten days, and will make the effect, after the new announcements of postponement by the singer this Friday, of consolation prize...
