I give Celine kudos for allowing the camera and sound to provide viewers with the many issues she has faced with SPS, especailly the contraction moment late in the doc. For that very-small population of people who acquire the disorder, I'm sure this documentary means a whole lot to them.
I didn't like the film though. It was slow and drawn out, and the "captures" of her onstage success moments were just that, moments (or seconds if you prefer) that seemed to reduce the 40+ years of her perfomances, the hundreds of concerts and her tremendous success to what seems to me a measly snapshot.
This being a year after filming, it was 18+ years ago when the first signs of the disorder were apparent to her and her husband. She's 56 now, so she was 37 or 38 when that first high-pitched voice occurred. And now she cries for the lies re: cancelled concerts and what seems like denial for many years considering her report of "one pill, then two pills, then another" to allow her to sing. There is no acceptance, at least none that I could discern.
Celine was given/blessed with such a great gift and then, cruelly, yes, it is lost to disease/disorder. Then . . . Move on with help -- PT but also talk therapy. Her mental and emotional health do not seem to have been . . . Taken care of over the years and certainly not during this filming. And at 56 years, she may have many more miles to go.
I didn't like the film though. It was slow and drawn out, and the "captures" of her onstage success moments were just that, moments (or seconds if you prefer) that seemed to reduce the 40+ years of her perfomances, the hundreds of concerts and her tremendous success to what seems to me a measly snapshot.
This being a year after filming, it was 18+ years ago when the first signs of the disorder were apparent to her and her husband. She's 56 now, so she was 37 or 38 when that first high-pitched voice occurred. And now she cries for the lies re: cancelled concerts and what seems like denial for many years considering her report of "one pill, then two pills, then another" to allow her to sing. There is no acceptance, at least none that I could discern.
Celine was given/blessed with such a great gift and then, cruelly, yes, it is lost to disease/disorder. Then . . . Move on with help -- PT but also talk therapy. Her mental and emotional health do not seem to have been . . . Taken care of over the years and certainly not during this filming. And at 56 years, she may have many more miles to go.
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