Kim Yaroshevskaya Movies

Every child who has lost a parent early in life (whether due to death or the separations of divorce or for any other reason) longs to see that parent again. Many have kept up a running dialogue in their heads of things they would say to them if they ever see them again, and many of these things are bitter indeed. In this story, Camille (Marianne-Coquelicot Mercier is such a child. Her father (Denis Mercier) left years before, and now she is thirteen. Stargazing appeals to her as a hobby because "stars have no sex." Surprisingly, her father does reappear, but now he is a "she." This casts a pall over their reunion, and Camille is forced to come to terms with her new father, and cannot renew a relationship with the man who (in his view at least) never was. Her mother (Sylvie Drapeau), however, is not about to be easily reconciled to this transformation. This story is based on a novel by Monique Proulx, a relative to the better known Annie Proulx. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi

Pierre (Mattias Habich) is a Montreal photojournalist who returns from Nicaragua to find that his ten-year menage a trois is over. Sarah (Johanne-Marie Tremblay) and David (Michel Voita) have moved out, leaving the bisexual Pierre wondering why. Haunted by his mid-life crisis, he becomes obsessed with trying to find why his two lovers have left him. After an awkward meeting with Sarah and David, Pierre begins a new relationship with the young deaf-mute Quentin (Jean-Francois Pichette). ~ Dan Pavlides, Rovi

Filmed in Quebec, Henri stars Eric Brisebois in the title role. The victim of an unhappy household and bedevilled by taunts from his peers, Henri is determined to prove his self-worth by winning a cross-country race. His father (Jacques Godin) has been brooding for months because he allowed his wife to drown while trying to rescue their daughter. It is the hospitalized daughter (Lucie Laurien) who acts as catalyst for the ultimate reconciliation between Henri and his dad. Henri is an effective character study, though it might be too low-key for audiences expecting the much-vaunted cross country race to be the film's focal point. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

This weekly Canadian series could be classified as a continuing drama, though each episode was a self-contained story despite its connection to previous and future installments. Set in Toronto during WWII, the series' focus was on the Lowe family, headed by general practitioner Dr. Arthur Lowe (Gerard Parkes) and his Jewish-refugee wife Anna (Kim Yaroshevskaya), a former nurse. The Lowes had two children: daughter Terry (Wendy Crewson) who worked in a defense plant, and who found solace in the arms of news correspondent Bruce McLeod (Bruce Savage) after her husband was killed in the war; and son Sidney (Peter Spence), a air corps pilot who spent much of the duration in POW camp, but who returned after the war with a pregnant British wife in tow. Sideline characters included the family's "surrogate son," Anna's Polish nephew Jakob; and Dr. Lowe's nurse, Marge, who was replaced in the doctor's office by Arthur's wife Anna after signing up with the Red Cross. An outgrowth of a drama-workshop project developed by series co-creator Jim Purdy, the weekly, 60-minute Home Fires was seen from November 9, 1980 to November 28, 1982. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi