There’s always been a quiet, searching quality to David Lowery’s films—from the spectral longing of “A Ghost Story” to the mythic introspection of “The Green Knight”—but “Mother Mary” looks like something louder, stranger, and more emotionally volatile. A pop epic with the bones of a character study, the film leans into performance, identity, and the uneasy cost of reinvention.
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The new trailer centers on Anne Hathaway as a globally famous pop star preparing for a high-stakes comeback, only to collide with unresolved history in the form of her estranged friend and former collaborator, played by Michaela Coel. Their reunion—set against the machinery of celebrity and spectacle—suggests a story less about redemption than confrontation, with old wounds surfacing just as the spotlight returns.
Lowery’s instincts for mood and interiority remain intact, but here they’re filtered through a more heightened, almost operatic frame. The music, written and produced by Jack Antonoff and Charli xcx, with additional songs by FKA twigs, doesn’t just underscore the drama—it appears to be the drama. The newly released track, “My Mouth is Lonely For You,” by Hathaway, hints at a film in which emotion is externalized through performance, blurring the line between persona and person.
The ensemble is rounded out by Hunter Schafer, Jessica Brown Findlay, Alba Baptista, and Sian Clifford, orbiting a story that seems to interrogate the cost of fame, authorship, and creative partnership. If Lowery’s past work often wrestled with time and memory, “Mother Mary” reframes those concerns through celebrity—how identity calcifies, fractures, and gets rewritten in public.
“Mother Mary” opens in New York and Los Angeles on April 17 before expanding nationwide on April 24. Watch the trailer below.
