One of the words used most often to describe French actor and comedian Valérie Lemercier is “kooky”, but even that fails to fully encapsulate the plain weirdness of her latest film, Aline, just released in the UK.
In this imagined biopic of singer Céline Dion, Lemercier, 58, plays the Canadian superstar at all ages, even a child, baffling and unsettling critics (the Guardian described it as “horrifying”).
