When asked about “Aline,” her imaginary biopic of singer Celine Dion, French actress Valerie Lemercier replies in what seems like the most French way possible.
“I wanted to make a perfume of Celine’s life,” she says on a video call from her home in Paris. “She’s the real perfume, but I tried to be the perfume in Celine’s life.”
Lemercier, who stars as Aline and directed and co-wrote the film, is best known in France for the off-the-wall characters she’s played in comedies in movies, on television, and on stage.
