The Beloved Child, or I Play at Being a Married Woman vs The Last Class

The Last Class has the higher audience score (10/10 against 6.6/10 for The Beloved Child, or I Play at Being a Married Woman). The Beloved Child, or I Play at Being a Married Woman is the shorter watch at 35m compared with 1h 11m. The Beloved Child, or I Play at Being a Married Woman is the older of the two (1971 against 2025). Both are documentary movies, so they suit a similar mood.

The Beloved Child, or I Play at Being a Married Woman posterThe Beloved Child, or I Play at Being a Married Woman1971 VS The Last Class posterThe Last Class2025
The Beloved Child, or I Play at Being a Married WomanThe Last Class
Audience score★ 6.6/10★ 10.0/10
Year19712025
Length35m1h 11m
GenresDocumentaryDocumentary
Country––
DirectorChantal AkermanElliot Kirschner
Main castClaire Wauthion, Chantal Akerman, Daphné MerzerRobert Reich

Synopsis

The Beloved Child, or I Play at Being a Married Woman

In this unfinished work, a young mother, her little girl, as well as a friend of the mother's, spend the summer in a villa. The mother shares her problems – womanhood, motherhood, being married - with her friend, dresses up with the little girl, observes her body, and does a series of household tasks.

The Last Class

American political economist, professor, author, and social media sensation Robert Reich teaches his final "Wealth and Poverty" class to 1,000 students at UC Berkeley, ending a 40-year career that reached 40,000 students. One thousand fill the biggest lecture hall on the UC Berkeley campus, the last class to receive Reich's wisdom and exhortations not to accept that the world has to stay the way it is. His belief in the next generation's…

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