If you’re up on your Quebecois-born megastars, you may have deduced that this all sounds like the life story of Celine Dion. Her parents (Danielle Michaud and Roc Lafortune) and older brother Jean-Bobin (Antoine Vézina) record a demo tape of Aline at age 12, and send it to a record producer, Guy-Claude Kamar (Sylvain Marcel). The Dieu children, growing up in a small house in Quebec in the 1970s, form a singing group - and eventually the family learns little Aline has the most beautiful, and most powerful, voice of all.
First, Lemercier, as director and co-writer (with Brigitte Buc), introduces us to her parents, Sylvette and Anglomard, as they fall in love, marry, vow not to have children - and then proceed to raise a family of 14 kids, with Aline the youngest, with a sock drawer as her crib.
We don’t meet the title character of Aline Dieu right away. And that’s not the weirdest part of this fan letter to one of the world’s biggest singing stars. The French comic actress and filmmaker Valérie Lemercier has invented something new with “Aline”: A fictional musical biopic that’s more true to its subject than a documentary would be.
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