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ABOUT THE FILMS: “The Beloved Child, or I Play at Being a Married Woman,” 1971, Dir. Chantal Akerman, 32 Mins, Janus Films, Belgium In French with English subtitles. Chantal Akerman somewhat disowned this unfinished film, in which the beautiful, lithe Claire Wauthion plays the mother of a sweet young girl, Daphné, with whom she reads Babar, prepares lunch and tries on dresses. Privately, with Akerman as a kind of mute but receptive presence, Wauthion confides her own sense of jealous
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