MONTREAL – Writer/director Rodrigue Jean (Yellowknife) has wrapped his feature Last Song, about a woman grappling with post-natal depression, after six weeks with popular Quebec opera singer Suzie LeBlanc and Patrick Goyette (Les Filles de Caleb).

The $1.1-million French-language feature begins with LeBlanc and Goyette playing a seemingly ideal couple, thrilled that they are having their first child. But after LeBlanc’s character gives birth, she is left with terrible feelings of despair. As her depression grows worse, her family goes into denial and she suffers on her own.

‘Rodrigue really likes doing stories on topics that no one else has really touched before,’ says coproducer François Landry. ‘This is a subject many don’t want to talk about — it’s still taboo. Women are made to feel that after they give birth they are to be elated, to be very happy about having a child. But many experience feelings of severe depression. That forms the basis of the movie.’

Made with the assistance of Telefilm Canada and SODEC, Last Song is produced by Landry through Filmo Productions and Jean through Transmar Films. It is slated for a spring 2008 release, distributed by Domino Films International.