While she has just canceled her tour for health reasons, Celine Dion plays herself in Love Again, a little, a lot, passionately. In this romantic comedy, the interpreter of My Heart Will Go On finds herself playing matchmaker between a jaded journalist and a grieving illustrator. Mira (Priyanka Chopra-Jonas) lost her fiancé in a traffic accident. Inconsolable, she continues to send text messages detailing his moods on the laptop of the deceased. She is unaware that the number has been reassigned to music critic Rob (Sam Heughan). Charmed by Mira's prose and encouraged by Celine Dion, whom he met in an interview, he decided to meet the cartoonist in the flesh.
"Rosewater, this romance is a tender, bubbly and comforting candy," says Closer. An opinion corroborated by our colleagues of the Parisian who evoke a comedy "candy pink certainly unrealistic, but which puts balm to the heart and does good". More bitter Le Figaro nevertheless praises the singer's playing: "From the scenario to the soundtrack - including five unreleased titles, there is not much to save from this melody without tonus. Except, maybe the self-deprecating number of the star singer. The Quebecer even steals the show from the lovebirds, whose idyll, sewn with white thread, leaves the hearts of spectators in flat encephalogram. "
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Télé 7 Jours abounds in thissen s: "The presence on the screen of the Quebec star is by far the most successful in this bluette," considers the magazine. CNews does not say anything else: "If we leave the screening with a furious desire to take all the hits of the Quebecer, we will quickly forget this feature film whose plot is as predictable as agreed." On the side of the JDD, the weekly praises the performances of Priyanka Chopra-Jonas and Sam Heughan struggling in a comedy unfolding a series of "clichés" but which "works despite everything by the exaltation of the feelings completely assumed by the tormented characters, one by mourning, the other by loneliness.
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Much more severe, the critics of Libération and Première do not give any quality to the film. For everyday life, the romantic comedy looks "aesthetically like a soap from the Disney channel, a mix between Un si grand soleil and Plus belle la vie. The subject is not far from this telegeny, with the same nullities and the same finds and curiosities. As for the specialized magazine, it sees "in reality only a subterfuge that hides from us between its lines the real subject of the film: Celine Dion, in her own role. The superstar arrives in the story like a hair on the soup: we do not know what she is doing there, but one thing is certain, she is having fun. For our colleague from Télérama, all the good he thinks of the film lies in the title of his article: "Love Again: a little, a lot, passionately, a romcom with Celine Dion that does not seduce us at all.
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