Un hijo propio

Another wonderful documentary by Maite Alberdi, this time focusing on the true story of Eleonor Alejandra Marin Mendoza, a Mexican woman who desperately wants to be a mother, but sadly suffers miscarriages that lead her to the rash decision to fake a pregnancy. Alejandra…

caterwauls

BERLINALE 2026 #10 GRAN TRAGEDIA: UNA DE LAS MEJORES DIRECTORAS CHILENAS ESTÁ ATRAPADA HACIENDO TELENOVELAS PARA NETFLIX. Strong 3 🇲🇽

Cobo 🎃

i did not just watch a netflix movie at the berlinale…

anni

Ficción-documental que muestra demasido. Por un lado expresa el fallo del sistema médico y legal de México, y por otro atestigua las implicaciones psíquicas de los mandatos de género sobre el deseo propio, deseo que se transforma al deseo del otro y lo que, en ocasiones,…

Clau Gro.

incredibly surprised by the amount of negative reviews this documentary has. even if it’s true that you can see all over the place how netflix produced it, the kitsch sense of aesthetics that it brings to its productions shouldn’t be the centre of attention in such a…

pixiethera

netflix ahh berlinale

Yoohaanaa

Reviewed by Katie McCabe for Sight and Sound Pink is a cruel colour in Maite Alberdi’s A Child of My Own. Alejandra (Ale), the real-life subject of the Chilean director’s squirrelly docudrama (played in the film’s dramatisations by Ana Celeste), is usually seen in shades…

Sight and Sound

crazy. crazy. I genuinely don't understand why they tried to portray a babynapper as a sympathetic person. I had the impression that the director pitied Alejandra more than the mother whose baby was stolen. The fact that they showed Alejandra having direct control over…

esqueezeme

Maite Alberdi la mujer que tu eres.... netflix está muy ahi en ese formato pero igual que increíble tratamiento de la historia, síganle dando todo el dinero que quiera pero déjenla hacer lo suyo ok!

elizabeth