Lost Song is a 2008 film by Canadian

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

 director Rodrigue Jean

Rodrigue Jean

Rodrigue Jean is an award-winning Canadian film director of Acadian origin. He studied biology, sociology and literature. He was a dancer and choreographer in the 1980s. He then studied theatre and directing in London and Tokyo....

, his third long feature after Full Blast and Yellowknife

Yellowknife (film)

Yellowknife is a 2002 film by Canadian director Rodrigue Jean, his second long feature after Full Blast.-Plot:Max and Linda travel from New Brunswick to the Yukon. Along the way, they hook up with two other couples: two strippers and a night-club singer and her manager...

. It won the Best Canadian Film Award at the Toronto International Film Festival

Toronto International Film Festival

The Toronto International Film Festival is a publicly-attended film festival held each September in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. In 2010, 339 films from 59 countries were screened at 32 screens in downtown Toronto venues...

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Plot

After their first-born baby, Pierre (Patrick Goyette) and Élisabeth (Suzie LeBlanc) drive to the country to stay with his mother. The baby is restless, refusing to eat and having trouble sleeping. Élisabeth perplexed with what to do leaves the baby with her overly attentive mother-in-law Louise (Ginette Morin), spending time with teenaged neighbor Naomi (Marilou Longpré Pilon), and finding comfort in the girl’s friendship.

Cast

• Suzie LeBlanc ... Élisabeth
• Patrick Goyette ... Pierre
• Ginette Morin ... Louise
• Marilou Longpré Pilon ... Naomi
• Louise Turcot ... Patricia
• Louis Lafrenière-Audette ... Michel
• Charles Lafrenière-Audette ... Michel
• Normand St-Jacques ... Naomi's father
• Luc Dumais ... Priest
• Gabrielle Georgieff ... Singer
• Lina Fortin ... Organist

External links

• Canad's Top Ten feature on Lost Song