
Run time: 104 mins
There is something about Céline Dion – the French-Canadian singer, arguably the queen of the power ballad – that melts even the stoniest of hearts.
Such is the primary draw of Love Again, an adaptation of the German novel Text For You, which packages a throwback romcom starring Priyanka Chopra and Sam Heughan as a Céline tribute vehicle. Two years after watching the love of her life struck down by a self-driving car, Mira (Chopra) is having a hard time letting go. Without realising that Rob (Sam Heughan) is on the receiving end, she starts flooding his new work phone with wincingly intimate texts.
Rob’s a music critic, heartbroken in his own way, who’s still getting over being dumped by his fiancée. Instead of being annoyed by the messages, he’s touched by their sincerity, to the extent that he may even be falling for whoever’s sending them. So, like any ordinary guy, he decides to stalk their source. Enter Céline Dion (playing a fictionalised version of herself) whom Rob’s been assigned to profile. It’s a sappy romance that aspires to making fans feel the way Dion’s music does, like their hearts can go on.