A haunted pop psychodrama in a freezing English barn, where a faltering superstar and her estranged designer stitch a dress together from old love, old wounds and the ghosts of their collaboration.
Mother Mary
"This is not a ghost story."
16 April 2026
United States of America
112 min
5.7
(200)
Director: David Lowery
Cast: Anne Hathaway, Michaela Coel, Hunter Schafer, FKA twigs, Sian Clifford
Drama
Thriller
Music
Collaboration as consumption
Fame and the fractured self
Love and resentment intertwined
Confronting the past
Costume as identity
Budget:
$20,000,000
Box Office:
$2,982,197
Mother Mary — Movie Quotes
Memorable Quotes
These metaphors are exhausting.
Context
Mary mutters it at one point during her time with Sam, as the Boston Globe review noted.
Meaning
A self-aware line that seems to comment on how heavily the film leans on metaphor. The Boston Globe used the film's metaphor-heavy style as its main criticism.
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