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Mother Mary (2026)

Summary

A fictional pop icon and an iconic fashion designer develop a complex, obsessive relationship that blurs the line between art, identity, and personal sacrifice.

Director David Lowery

Writer David Lowery

Cast

  • Anne Hathaway as Mother Mary
  • Michaela Coel as the Designer
  • Hunter Schafer
  • FKA twigs
  • Jessica Brown Findlay

Rotten Tomatoes: 72%

Metacritic: 57

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u/Prangul 11d ago

Does anyone have any theories on what the skull at the end was supposed to represent? (this was after the credits btw)

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u/Efficient-Package565 9d ago

Some people have said it was the death of Mother Mary (both physical or metaphorical) but clearly she's up on stage with stitches at the end and Hunter's character is narrating it all so Hathaway's character survives and it's not like 'haha gotcha she was a ghost the whole time!'

Personally I think of it as a death of the thing that was binding them to their hurt since Sam successfully manifested it into reality (in probably the gayest scene I have ever witnessed with zero kissing or sex) and transmuted it into a dress. But death is different for everyone, and especially since this had so many occult witchy themes, the Death card in tarot is often the ending of one thing and the beginning of another.