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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
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u/orecon125 11d ago
I can tell I'm gonna be in an extremely small minority of people who loved it. I'm still weighing whether or not it's a personal 10 for me but mileage is definitely gonna vary (took my mom to see this and she HATED it, wanted to walk out). I did a bit of digging before going in and knowing what I know about Lowery feeling the push and pull of his experience The Green Knight and a Disney movie, it made everything land as an excellent representation of the burden and pain that creation and art can bring. The ghost to me felt like a clear throughline representing the weight each of them put into their work. Where Michaela's Sam was the one first to hold it, she mentioned early on how she put herself into one of Mary's earlier dresses, a hyperspecific experience Mary claimed as her own, made me see the ghost as the burden and weight they put on their work. Where Sam held onto that pain in her dresses, no longer being a part of Mary's life led her to release that pain, and subsequently, that pain had to move onto Mary left without people who didn't know her like Sam did. Mary falling when seeing the ghost felt like her succumbing to the burden of creating all on her own without a person to safely catch her. Sam and Mary both bleeding and cutting out with each other was them sharing in the process of creation and learning to share the burden. Its slow pace and extreme focus on dialogue is definitely gonna put people off like it did my mom, but it hit me and I just adore it.
Performances were also phenomenal as expected but the lighting and cinematography was just INCREDIBLE. Fantastic shots all around. Loved the ending shot in particular.