This is not a tightly controlled celebrity vanity project misleadingly packaged as a ‘documentary’. See Beckham and Harry & Meghan – both on Netflix. Instead Prime Video’s I Am: Céline Dion is a raw, heartbreaking and deeply moving window into the reclusive life of a once-in-a-generation talent cut down in its prime.
Whether power ballads are your jam or not, you can’t help but like Céline Dion. She is intense, theatrical and speaks in highly memeable couplets, often breaking into song mid-sentence. She’s delightfully eccentric, a bit odd, and the need to perform – it is painfully obvious to see – runs through her very blood. “My voice was the conductor of my life – you lead the way, I’ll follow you,” she says.
