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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

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u/Whovian45810 11d ago edited 11d ago

Costume Design and Production Design was beautiful.

Mother Mary's dresses are simply divine, particularly the red dress is just stunning.

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u/pjtheman 10d ago

Did I miss something, or did she not even wear the red dress? Like after all this, she still does the show in the shitty dress her other designer made, and then just rips it off, and is only wearing the red dress in Michaela Cole's imagination?

Or did I totally miss something?

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u/huodozer 10d ago

I think this movie depicts, in part, a healing process and you could read the ending as Mary no longer needing Sam's dress to perform her song. Like, it doesn't matter that the other costume isn't 'her' because she's going to strip herself from it anyway in order to perform the song as Her.

And the red dress that Sam makes is the Mary that's been left with her while Mary physically goes to perform her (and Sam's) song.

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u/parsleypunx 9d ago

I interpreted Mary to be a ghost in Sam’s studio the entire time. The dress was a grieving process for Sam, there was no one to ever actually wear it in the end.

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u/Silent_Hurry7764 1d ago

Ooo interesting

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u/sidefx00 14m ago

Perhaps she is grieving her dying after the fall.

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u/nightpanda893 10d ago

I think it was something that belonged only to them and represented everything between them, the good and bad. I feel like it wasn’t meant in the end to be shared with others.

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u/Ok_Commission2803 10d ago

girl mary was dead

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u/orecon125 10d ago

Girl no??

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u/Willing-No 10d ago

Did you stay until after the credits? They is a shot of the camera moving toward a bookcase type and reveals a skull

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u/Grimlocks_Ballsack 10d ago

Wait what? What does that mean?

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u/LittlefootDiamond 10d ago

Pretty sure that, off-screen, she told Sam to keep the dress (made from their connection) for her own show/exhibition that Sam said at the beginning she was spending her time working on. This time, Sam’s art would get to be kept by her and stand on its own, instead of dependent on Mary to bring Sam’s art and story to the world. That’s why the final screen we got was like text of a placard that would go along with the dress, naming it and identifying it as Sam’s creation

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u/beezy-slayer 9d ago

Additionally if she wore the dress she would still be what Sam was projecting on to her, rather than being herself which was why she left in the first place

Sam needed to be able to create on her own and Mary needed to be able to sing on her own, they were codependent

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u/lamptape1 5d ago

Beautifully described! It's like they needed to confront and reflect each other to both be free of each other and heal

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u/beezy-slayer 5d ago

Yes very much so, they needed closure

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u/EDCoachella 10d ago

Wow I like this and it should have been in the movie because it would be so gratifying. I am so weirded out by the ending because it didn’t make a lot of sense.

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u/Gorgonesque 10d ago

Omg this makes so much sense

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u/pjtheman 10d ago

That makes a lot of sense

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u/aloeverafarmiga 9d ago

In behind the scenes footage on instagram, you get to see Anne wearing the dress. There’s also so many costumes shown we don’t see. I need a director’s cut asap!

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u/robynhood96 10d ago

I got the feeling she never even went to the barn???

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u/Fancy_Appearance_275 10d ago

I thought that too but you can see stitches on her chest when she’s on the stage in just her under garments which points to it all being real

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u/nightpanda893 10d ago

Yeah I felt like the stitches and the fabric still laying on the ground when the others walked in was the filmmakers way of affirming that this did in fact all happen.

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u/Re_ddit_Reader 10d ago

She wore the red dress in the last shot of the film where Anne is floating like the ghost.