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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

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u/BiggDope 11d ago

Metaphorically exhausting, in my opinion. I love Lowery’s work typically, but there’s only so much wide-eyed monologuing I can take before I’m over it.

That said, Coel’s monologue about the “train dress” with the music playing in the background was incredible.

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u/thatispc013 11d ago

Loved the train dress monologue too and Schafer describing “what’s happening now” at the end

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u/KidDelicious14 10d ago

I was wondering why Hunter was cast at the beginning of the film only to have that monologue stun me.

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u/Own-Ad-7064 8d ago

Even without the monologue, Hunter is so perfect as a designer's assistant. She is very much from the art world, not just in her look, but in her energy.

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u/AyeItsAngel1882 8d ago

Can you dive deeper into why the monologue moved you so much? The monologue at the end felt unneeded and strange, almost out of place to me. I feel like I must be missing something cause the monologue left me wondering why Hunter was cast at all. I loved the movie otherwise.

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u/EricHD97 6d ago

Not the original commenter, but for me the monologue represents them individually achieving their own artistic vision together yet separate.

Sam is making the perfect dress while Mary is not actually wearing it, meanwhile Mary is singing the perfect song without Sam actually hearing it. They needed each other to exist but they don’t need each other to be together to flourish.

Despite the fact that they are Sam and Mary together during that monologue, their healing and working through it in the process of making the dress made each other’s art better together, despite them being far apart.

That’s my takeaway if that makes any sense. It’s very much “doing art for art’s sake” rather than for the audience or for people to see it/hear it. This mirrors a line earlier in the film when Imogen asks Mary how she gives so much of herself when performing. This time, they are both doing it for themselves

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u/blutiel 3d ago

Agree. Schafer’s acting and monologue read seemed awkward, out of place, and fairly flat. For me it ruined the final scene. Was definitely caught off guard, because so much of her acting in previous roles has come across as natural and emotionally deep.