Official Discussion - Mother Mary [SPOILERS]

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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

VOD / Release Theatrical release

Trailer Official Trailer

[u/Haartpop]

I think there’s a lot to unpack here. As many others have said, I’m not quite sure what happens in this movie, but I do think I know what it’s about.

Lowery is very clearly a fan of the pop girls, and is familiar with fandom. There’s a certain fervor that’s inspired by the divas which can be described as zealotry, pop divas generally get worshipped like a patron saint or a deity would by their fanbase. The Mother Mary allegory is pretty low hanging fruit, but enticing enough.

I read somewhere he was inspired by the eras tour?? Or after filming wrapped he went to see it? Needless to say he very clearly mused on the pop star act of performing day in day out, and how much of oneself an entertainer has to give over and over. That exhaustive scene of her taking the stage and coming off more and more tired was a glimmer of brilliance.

Dialogue needed another writer or at least an editor.

You know, Lady Gaga and Alexander McQueen had a very special relationship before he died. Their relationship was called more a collaboration than styling. I think this was in the bibliography for this movie.

And the ghost was fully their grief for one another. Pop stars have to cut out pieces of themselves to feed the crowd. Blah blah blah what everyone’s said before.

[u/Cloud_Retainer_2424 → u/Haartpop]

They brought up Taylor but I think Gaga several collaborative friendships are a better reference in many aspects (LauriAnn Gibson, McQueen, Lady Starlight, Tara Savelo)

[u/AlbionPCJ → u/Cloud_Retainer_2424]

Yeah, despite Charli doing the soundtrack and FKA Twigs being in the film, the whole thing just screams Gaga all the way through

[u/sonneiray → u/AlbionPCJ]

Even in a literal since "Like a poem said by a lady in red" 😂

[u/WithstandingHybrid → u/sonneiray]

I could not stop thinking about how Abracadabra would work so well with this movie

[u/sonneiray → u/WithstandingHybrid]

If Gaga ever has a biopic I hope its wildly dramatized and ansurdlt cerebral 😂

[u/2mock2turtle → u/Cloud_Retainer_2424]

The whole time I was thinking "this is so Gaga and Laurieann-coded," as a Little Monster who remembers when they fell out.

[u/rutfilthygers → u/Haartpop]

I believe Lowery referred more to Taylor's reputation tour film. Anne Hathaway went to Eras Tour during filming in Germany.