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‘I Am: Celine Dion’ Review: The Canadian Diva Has Never Seemed Stronger Than She Does in Prime’s Revealing Doc
From 'My Heart Will Go On' to 'I'm Alive,' Celine Dion's power ballads take on fresh resonance in a deeply personal look at Stiff Person Syndrome.
In Dion’s case, that has meant sharing her roots (as the youngest of 14 kids in a poor Canadian family), her loves (most notably, the soulmate-level romance with her producer and manager, René Angélil) and her losses (coping with her husband’s passing) in countless interviews and profiles. Taylor presents career-spanning montages, as well as extended sequences from epic individual shows, that demonstrate how Dion gave audiences more of herself than was reasonable with each soul-resonating performance, punctuated as they were with fist-pumping, chest-thumping flourishes. “I Am” features fewer of Dion’s songs than you might expect, finding composer (and cellist) Redi Hasa’s more meditative score a better fit than its subject’s lyric ballads for the tone Taylor’s aiming for — although a few, like “All by Myself,” are highly effective coming from the now-widowed chanteuse.
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