In A Child of My Own, Chilean director Maite Alberdi turns a bizarre true story from Mexico into a tender, unsettling docudrama about desire and deception. After three miscarriages, ‘Alejandra’ fakes a pregnancy for nine months to satisfy family pressure, making a desperate deal that collapses into arrest.
Blending candy-colored reenactments with real testimony, Alberdi explores how societal expectations, grief, and self-delusion can blur reality. The result is a film that feels strange, funny, and very real.
A performance of motherhood that spiraled out of control
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