Modern pop star meets gothic melodrama in David Lowery’s phantasmagoric MOTHER MARY, a tale of two women bound across time and space by their personal and artistic histories. Mother Mary (Anne Hathaway) is a global pop icon who has crafted a larger-than-life persona across a decades-long and successful career. Finding herself in crisis, desperate to shed the smothering weight of all she’s become, the superstar turns to the only person she trusts — fashion designer Sam Anselm (Michaela Coel), the visionary friend she abandoned years ago. When Mother Mary resurfaces out of the blue at Sam’s country estate, requesting one final dress for the performance of a lifetime, so begins a hallucinatory night of confrontation, collaboration, memory, and reinvention…

for those who want to be challenged and shown something beautiful, it’s a truly singular experience -Metro Times

never not fascinating. Lowery has created a stunning piece of cinema about the difficulties inherent in a kind of art that’s all consuming -The Curb

by pivoting away from cinema’s recent penchant for celebrity commentary to face the stripped-down human truth, “Mother Mary” is a reinvention fit for a superstar -Salon.com

Themes are expounded with an invention and wit that add bounce to a film draped in rich, oil-painterly gloom. -Irish Times

R, 98min

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