"D'eux" at 30: Céline Dion returns to her legendary album with Jean-Jacques Goldman in a documentary to be seen this Wednesday evening on M6

She shocked the world with her surprise appearance at the top of the Eiffel Tower for the opening of the Paris Olympic Games in July 2024.

A moving return, a month after the broadcast of her documentary on Prime Video , in which she frankly shared the violence of her rare neurological disease .

Since then, Celine Dion has been rare, but she chooses her moments: concerts which she attends as a spectator, persistent rumors of a record in preparation, or even a return to the stage.

This Wednesday, September 3 at 9:10 p.m. , she returns to television in a more intimate register with Céline Dion raconte D'eux , a new documentary broadcast on M6.

The occasion is symbolic: to celebrate the thirty years of D'eux , a legendary album written and composed by Jean-Jacques Goldman , which sold nearly twelve million copies and became the most popular French-language work of all time.

A voice that has become universal

In a long interview conducted last May in Las Vegas, the Quebec star delves back into this founding collaboration which marked his career.

We find a funny and sparkling Céline, capable of making fun of her own memories .

She still enjoys her first meeting with Goldman, who arrived on his bike with a yogurt in his pocket , far from the image of the "great author" that she imagined.

Later, he would ask her to "de-sing" , to remove her rolled "r"s and to sing more simply , revealing a more universal voice.

"He offered me another family, that of the French public."

The documentary directed by Nicolas Perge is full of archive footage, some of it previously unseen, tracing the birth of hits that have become heritage (let those who have never danced to J'irai où tu iras throw the first stone).

Between bursts of laughter with Valérie Michelin – her manager in France and the interviewer – Céline Dion lets herself be overcome with emotion.

She then recalls her late husband René Angélil, their doubts when Jean-Jacques Goldman proposed an entire album, and the gratitude she still feels for the singer-songwriter today.

"He gave me another family, that of the French public," she confides, holding back tears.

"I always wanted to be loved in France, and it was always a little difficult. He gave me the chance to be welcome in your home. And that, for me, was worth a lot. A passionate singer, like me, wants to be loved. And D'eux gave me the chance to have another big family," the singer says in the M6 ​​documentary.

Absent from Eurovision 2025 and La Défense Arena

At 57, Céline Dion still demonstrates this irrepressible desire to sing: each time a song is mentioned, she starts humming ... sometimes Piaf, sometimes Goldman.

His return remains uncertain, however , marred by false leads and multiple postponements.

"Despite her reassuring appearances over the past year, she has already twice postponed her return to Paris La Défense Arena , the venue where she was due to perform before Covid-19," explains Le Parisien .

She was due to take part in Eurovision in May 2025 but suffered a seizure that prevented her from singing, before immediately leaving the venue.

One thing remains clear: the album D'eux has changed the image of the Quebec star in France, a country that has returned her love for three decades.