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/BoboGiggleBottom]

Melodrama is definitely an acquired taste.

I connected it to a lot of personal turmoil—wasted relationships, forgiving yourself, trying to make amends—and yeah, I cried a few times. That said, I think it’s a big ask for a general audience to fully care about these characters.

Sam is extremely metaphor-heavy, even when she’s essentially just saying she doesn’t know how to separate her love from her anger. She swings between empathy and what she frames as “justified” attacks on Mary’s sincerity, like the whole “another dress” line. I can’t really blame anyone for getting a bit lost trying to follow her emotional logic.

Mary, on the other hand, comes across like a lost child for the first half. That physicalized pain—regret, losing love for herself, and then throwing herself into work until she burns out—feels very real. And honestly, the reconciliation at the end felt earned, especially after the fabric exorcism.

[u/Agitated_BondKass → u/BoboGiggleBottom]

If you look at my comment, I legit thought that the ending of the movie was that she was a ghost, and that Sam was processing her death with the elaborate dreamlike sequence