Celine Dion Covers AC/DC’s ‘You Shook Me All Night Long’: Watch

We’re just some weeks away from the discharge of Aline, the place French actress Valérie Lemercier performs a thinly veiled model of Celine Dion named Aline Dieu from the age of 5 to 50. That will sound like a batshit-crazy concept for a film, however Lemercier (who additionally directs) is a real expertise and the trailer has us captivated.

The main focus of the film is Dieu’s romantic partnership together with her supervisor and the various obstacles positioned of their manner as a consequence of their huge age distinction, mirroring Dion’s relationship together with her late husband René Angélil. However there are additionally loads of musical moments the place French singer Victoria Sio does her greatest to copy Dion’s distinctive vocals.

The film has a 71% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes, although many critics have been lower than impressed by the choice to have Lemercier painting the singer as a toddler. “Shrunk to Hobbit measurement and Facetuned into near-oblivion, Lemercier scampers, preens and unnerves,” wrote Kyle Buchanan of The New York Times. “I’ve by no means seen something fairly prefer it: Not Pen15, not John C. Reilly in the beginning of Stroll Exhausting, not even a totally grown Martin Brief enjoying a psychotic 10-year-old in Clifford. As a cinematic presence, Preteen Aline appears much less like our most important character and extra like she’s able to terrorize Vera Farmiga within the subsequent Conjuring film.”

Music rights are all the time a tricky problem for a film like this, so don’t count on to listen to a lot of Dion’s large hits in Aline. And sadly, don’t count on to see a re-creation of the opening to the 2002 VH1 Divas Las Vegas live performance the place Dion carried out AC/DC’s “You Shook Me All Night time Lengthy” as a duet with Anastacia and Meredith Brooks on guitar. As you possibly can see from this video, it’s a peak Dion second that includes air guitar and a lyrical gender flip. “He was a quick machine,” she sings. “He stored his motor clear/He was one of the best rattling man I had ever seen/He had the sightless eyes, telling me no lies/Knocking me out together with his American thighs.”

Dion has performed Las Vegas numerous instances over the previous 20 years, and she or he’s coated all types of sudden songs throughout that point, however that is her one try at an AC/DC tune, or actually something within the hard-rock canon moreover the occasional Queen tune.

She was pressured to cancel her 2022 North American dates this yr as a consequence of “extreme and protracted muscle spasms,” however she is scheduled to start an in depth European run on Might 25 on the Utilita Enviornment in Birmingham, England. Possibly she’ll shock followers there by enjoying “Complete Lotta Rosie,” “She’s Acquired Balls,” “Soul Stripper,” or “Large Balls,” however we wouldn’t wager on it.