Following an awkward transition into narrative filmmaking with 2024’s fact-inspired but melodrama-leaning “In Her Place,” “A Child of My Own” sees Chilean director Maite Alberdi returning to documentary cinema — albeit of the same fuzzily defined, playfully genre-infused variety that scored her an Oscar nomination for “The Mole Agent.” Based on the case of a Mexican nurse incarcerated for abducting another woman’s baby from the hospital where she worked, the film devotes much of its running time to a bright, stylized dramatization of events from the perpetrator’s perspective, casting her actions in a very different light from how they appear in cold black and white. Once documentary framing takes
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