Argentina’s Natalia Smirnoff to Direct ‘(Im)perfect Mom,’ Inspired by Penguin Random House Bestseller (EXCLUSIVE)
variety.comJohn Hopewell Chief International Correspondent Argentine helmer Natalia Smirnoff, director of “Puzzle,” a 2010 Berlin main Competition contender, and “Lock Charmer,” selected for the 2014 Sundance Festival, is attached to direct international co-production project “Mamá (Im)perfecta” (“(Im)perfect Mom.”) The project teams Colombian production outfits Laberinto Producciones and Ganas Producciones with Argentina’s Tarea Fina and Canada’s Fait Divers Media.
In development and scheduled for a May 2025 shoot, “(Im)perfect Mom” is inspired by Penguin Random House bestseller “Drunk Mom: A Memoir,” by Polish-born writer Jowita Bydlowska.
The story follows Jo, a 42-year-old woman, a successful photographer who gives birth to her first child. In the midst of the trance of motherhood, breastfeeding and the sensing changes in her body, she celebrates with her husband and friends the event, the most important of her life.
But despite the happiness of having become a mother, from that first sip of alcohol, an addiction awakens in her that begins to grow uncontrollably and unleashes within her a struggle to contain herself, strengthen her motherhood and try not to let everything else collapse.
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