A Child of My Own

  • R

  • Documentary

Candy-coloured recreations of one woman’s pregnancy unravel as dark truths are revealed in Maite Alberdi’s intimate docudrama

the Guardian

Chilean filmmaker Maite Alberdi probes the case of Eleonor Alejandra Marín Mendoza – a Mexican woman who, after three miscarriages, faked a pregnancy and kidnapped a baby – in her stylised documentary, which seeks to understand its subject’s choices without excusing them.

BFI

Desperate for a baby and burdened by family and societal expectations, a woman fakes a pregnancy and gets tangled in a crime.

Ana Celeste, Armando Espitia, Luisa Guzmán, Ángeles Cruz, Mayra Sérbulo

Maite Alberdi

96 min

Spanish

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