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Prayer for a Lost Mitten
Prière pour une Mitaine Perdue
You’ll never see lost property the same way after watching this elegy to loss and yearning in wintry Montreal.
The people who come to the lost-and-found office at the Montreal Metro’s transit centre are seekers. Along with mislaid keys, hats and glasses, they’re often missing things that are more difficult to retrieve: childhood happiness, an old flame, a dead loved one. Over the course of one snowy winter, these Canadians ponder the personal associations that grant objects their true warmth.
Director Jean-François Lesage spent two days observing anxious people at the lost-and-found, before interviewing them and documenting their social lives. Their reflections and interactions pave the way for profound insights into memory, mortality and the human condition. There’s a poetic melancholy to this film’s nocturnal interludes, which Lesage captures in crisp black-and-white, and, in an era of social distancing, Prayer for a Lost Mitten emerges as an ode to shared spaces and city life in all its bustle of missed connections.
“Both simple and profound … Prayer for a Lost Mitten leaves viewers with much to ponder – as well as an incentive to appreciate the things they still have.” – Screen Daily
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