Don’t let the title fool you. Mother Mary is defiantly not the latest in a long line of Hollywood’s biblical epics, but instead an exploration of spirituality and reawakening in the life of a mega-pop star who may be part Beyonce, part Taylor Swift, part Lady Gaga, but certainly mostly an ode to Madonna, or at least a Madonna-style musical icon on the verge of cracking, and searching for spiritual answers and repairs to a relationship that fell apart when fame and fortune got in the way.
Coming from David Lowery, a director with an eclectic filmography that can’t be easily defined, this one is much closer in spirit to his esoteric ouerve ala A Ghost Story in which Casey Affleck acted largely under a white sheet, and the twisted medeval-ness of The Green Knight, rather than his Disney concoctions
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