Lost Song (2008) User Reviews

Lost Song

[peachjenni · 7/10 · 16 January 2014]

I found this movie difficult to get into at first, but I was caught up in Elisabeth's melancholy. With little being said in the form of dialogue, she was able to portray the post-partum depression in a very real and believable way. I have struggled with depression myself and Leblanc was completely believable. I thought the friendship with Naomi could have been explored a little more. I think she was a lot more than a smoking buddy to Elisabeth. Are we supposed to end up not liking the husband? He seemed selfish and a little clueless to Elisabeth's plight.I would have liked a more understandable ending as well. To me, it kind of left things up in the air. If she wanted out, if she wanted to kill herself, why take the baby with her? Why not leave him with his father? I didn't really get that. Did the baby really die, or are we led to believe he did, but do not really know? Having said that, I really did enjoy watching this film. I could not stop watching it...it made me late for work because I had to see how it ended.

A senseless story with no hero and very gloomy, nihilistic ending

[rowmorg · 1/10 · 22 November 2010]

This low-budget picture starts out as reasonably interesting, with a young mother and her devoted husband visiting his mother at a serene, silent lake in rural Quebec, tending to their new baby. Elizabeth is trying to nurse the baby, but mother-in-law imposes the bottle because the baby will not feed from Elizabeth's nice breasts. Elizabeth does have some kind of malaise. Relations with hubby start to decline when she is unable to satisfy his sex-drive with oral or manual instead of vaginal. He wanks over her: his semen slaps on to her belly. Things are not right. There are rats upstairs, bothering her. She feebly rehearses her classical repertoire (Mozart). By now (half-way through) we have got used to the lengthy shots where characters do nothing much. They just live their lives in the hot summer. Elizabeth keeps leaving the cabin carrying the baby. Eventually, and it is a helluva long time, she walks far into the woods with the baby and a bag of supplies. Hubby beeps for her in the car. Later, a search-party member wanders by, then helicopters loom overhead. Elizabeth slips in the fast-running river. Pictures of her in the back seat of a squad car, being questioned. End. There is no hero(ine). There's no villain. Just something unnamed in Mummy's head. Okay, we watched it to the end, and were utterly disgusted. How this lousy film ever got financing from Telefilm and Quebec film, I'll never know.

A little known film from Canada

[ronchow · 8/10 · 10 September 2012]

This 2008 film from Canada was not known to me until I stumbled on it in a local library. The name Suzie LeBlanc got my attention as I know her to be a soprano and have enjoyed her singing in the past. This film was her first attempt at acting and I think she did a good job at it.

"Lost Song" deals with postnatal depression that wrecked the life of a young woman and the lives that surround her. The topic was subtly handled. Much was not explained well (e.g. the sexual problem between her and her husband) but that only added to the intrigue of the film and did not impair its merits.

I find it to be a good watch. There were some erotic moments too, and the occasional singing by LeBlanc. All these add to the charm of the film. I wish this film has been better advertised so more people know about it. Recommended for people who is not looking for fast action or a rowdy story, but a very low-key and yet sensitive approach to a subject we all have heard about. Solid directing and acting by all.