Katie McCabe

A Child of My Own: Maite Alberdi’s tricksy documentary about a woman who stole a newborn paints moral grey areas with shades of pink

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.