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…
R, 98min
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