Themes: Age Disparity Romance, Teachers and Students, Down on Their Luck
Main Cast: Genevieve Desilets, Yani Gellman
Release Year: 2000
Country: CA
Run Time: 105 minutes
Plot
In this fact-based, made-for-TV drama, Gabrielle Roy (Genevieve Desilets) is a young woman studying to be a teacher whose enthusiasm outstrips her experience, both in life and as an educator. During the depth of the Great Depression, Gabrielle finds work as a schoolteacher in a small town on the prairie, but while she arrives determined to make a difference, she soon discovers not everyone in the community trusts her new and innovative teaching methods. Gabrielle finds she has a much greater problem, however, when one of her students -- a 15-year-old boy -- falls in love with her, which she soon realizes is something more than an ordinary schoolboy crush. Children of My Heart, based on Gabrielle Roy's memoirs, also features Yani Gellman, Isabella Fink, and Michael Moriarty. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
Children of My Heart is a novel by Gabrielle Roy, published in 1977. The novel, Roy's last published work of fiction, was originally published in French as Ces enfants de ma vie.
The novel's protagonist is "Mamzelle", a young teacher in a 1930s Prairie town. Based on Roy's own experiences as a teacher, the novel focuses on Mamzelle's relationship with her students.
The novel was adapted into a television film in 2000. Directed by Keith Ross Leckie, the film starred Geneviève Désilets, Geneviève Bujold and Michael Moriarty.
