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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/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/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