Spending time with teenaged neighbor Naomi, Élisabeth finds comfort in the girl's friendship.

[2] Brian D. Johnson of Maclean's wrote, "This story of a woman’s quiet descent into postpartum depression at a summer cottage in Quebec is...'a perfect marriage of character and landscape.'

[4] Damon D’Oliveira, a member of the Toronto International Film Festival Group which compiled the list, said, "The beauty of Rodrigue Jean's Lost Song is in its simplicity.

He has crafted a spare and uncompromising film – rife with humanity – about first-time parents grappling with the mounting pressures of caring for a newborn.

Gracefully understated performances creep up and deliver a gut punch at the film's unsettling climax.