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In Theaters Now
- 2024
- PG
- Amazon MGM Studios
- 1 h 43 m
- 2024
- PG
- Amazon MGM Studios
- 1 h 43 m
Summary This is a journey inside Celine Dion's life as she reveals her battle with Stiff Person Syndrome.
Directed By: Irene Taylor
In Theaters Now
- 2024
- PG
- Amazon MGM Studios
- 1 h 43 m
- 2024
- PG
- Amazon MGM Studios
- 1 h 43 m
I Am: Celine Dion
76
7.7
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Summary This is a journey inside Celine Dion's life as she reveals her battle with Stiff Person Syndrome.
Directed By: Irene Taylor
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 12 Critic Reviews
76
100% Positive
12 Reviews
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0% Mixed
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 12 Critic Reviews
76
100% Positive
12 Reviews
12 Reviews
0% Mixed
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
0% Negative
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0 Reviews
The documentary, taking its cue from Dion, is not merely looking backward; there’s a path ahead. What exactly that looks like is, as it turns out, being negotiated as the documentary unfolds.
This is a rare nonfiction chronicle of an artist that also avoids hagiography — we see Dion at her lowest because that becomes the reminder of who she is at her very best.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 34 User Ratings
7.7
79% Positive
27 Ratings
27 Ratings
9% Mixed
3 Ratings
3 Ratings
12% Negative
4 Ratings
4 Ratings
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 34 User Ratings
7.7
79% Positive
27 Ratings
27 Ratings
9% Mixed
3 Ratings
3 Ratings
12% Negative
4 Ratings
4 Ratings
Céline Dion is simply iconic.
This documentary represents how majestic her career is, but also who she is as a human being. An extraordinary, humble and inspiring woman. After watching this documentary the world will never see Celine the same again. Not because of his illness but because of his impeccable life and legacy.
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[A] remarkably unguarded documentary.
The film documents how Dion has remained a pop culture fixture in the past decade, from appearances on late night shows to a music video with Deadpool.
By Chris Kelly
FULL REVIEW
The film lands somewhere between hand-holding fan service and brutal portrait of chronic illness.
By Madeline Leung Coleman
FULL REVIEW
At its worst, the film is an homage to Dion’s presented indomitability. At its best, it serves as a compelling portrait of a powerhouse performer’s lifeblood love of stage and audience.
Although this single-minded existence will fascinate and inspire devotees, anyone new to the details of her life is likely to be left wanting more. Even so, all will be moved by the honest approach Dion and Taylor take towards her illness.
Speechless! This documentary showed Céline Dion's dedication to her family, her music and her fans.
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A beautiful history, i love the entire documentary, I LOVE CELINE and all the world are praying for her!
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This documentary is one of the best documentaries I've ever watched, it's so raw and it has emotions and it proves to all of us How Celine Dion is such a fighter and it proves again to us why she is the best singer. This documentary is a catapult for what's to come as she makes her comeback. I really enjoyed this from start to end.
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I have SPS and I’ve been either paralyzed, trying to rest or completely weak the last couple days. The overstimulation from the noise & vibrations from the 4th of July celebrations nearly killed me, I swear!! So I’ve decided to attempt to watch, “I Am: Celine Dion,” as she is a fellow sufferer of Stiff-Persons Syndrome. I notice a few things immediately, I have to watch the show on mute with subtitles because the sounds (even her voice) in the documentary trigger my spasms and cramps immediately. I have to close or cover my eyes through some of it because of the flashing lights and quick movements. Most of us with SPS get the IVIG (plasma infusions) treatment that is shown in the beginning. We all take the different sedative & immunotherapy **** (IF we are lucky enough), tailored to our specific symptoms. These fog our brains, cause other issues, and none of us have the exact same experience with the illness or the treatments. The one thing that we do all experience is the progression of the illness and the loss of the effectiveness of the treatments. The autoimmune conditions start to add up, once you have one, you start getting more. Your body decides it’s going to kill itself. I see her dog. I bet she has someone there to feed it and let it out when she can’t move. It breaks my heart some mornings when I stare at my pup, and just have to tell her, just another half hour, girl, then I’ll hopefully be able to get you outside/feed you. I note her despair for the loss of being able to perform, to watch her dreams, passions and abilities slip away. I know this feeling well, as does everyone with SPS. It’s absolutely heartbreaking. Breathing does feel like you’re wearing a corset, except some of us have conditions where our involuntary muscles are affected as well. So our lungs don’t work as they should. Then breathing becomes terrifying, not just painful. I’m happy to see that she is able to walk to steadily; I’m constantly a ping pong ball bouncing off furniture, walls, horses and horse stalls. I’m guessing that she has days like that, too. We all suffer, I’m glad she was able to create this documentary to shine some light on the topic. I do believe though, without taking away from her pain, that there should be a documentary called, “We Are Not Celine Dion,” for the rest of us who fight with a whole other list of issues. The are thousands of us (this is a collective list of things I see in support groups) who don’t have money, a way to make money, have to fight with medical insurance companies, Medicaid, Medicare, Disability, live alone, have families that desert you, don’t have families to begin with, don’t receive adequate medical care, are ignored by doctors, don’t have the whole world rooting for them, don’t have the best doctors, specialists, physical therapists, rides to appointments, drivers to the grocery store or the pharmacy, medical professionals that come to your home, someone who cleans your house, poolside loungers to sit on, someone bringing “milkshakes” or food, “people waiting in line for your apples” that they pay a lot of money for… ?!?, sports medicine doctors to stretch your body, move you back into place, run to your side & hold your hand/rub your back/offer more meds when you have a paralytic seizure - the majority of us seize on the ground until our body lets up on its own, usually after about a half hour. She doesn’t know what it means to be, “All by Myself,” luckily, I don’t either, but some do. It’d be nice to cast a more realistic view of the struggles of SPS. Because most of us are not Celine Dion.
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Production Company
Sony Music,
Sony Music Entertainment,
Vermilion Films,
Les Productions Feeling,
Sony Music Vision
Release Date Jun 25, 2024
Duration 1 h 43 m
Rating PG
Genres