A pop star needs a dress. That’s how Texas-raised and Dallas-based filmmaker David Lowery began his pitch to A24 for Mother Mary, which stars Anne Hathaway as the titular troubled pop diva and Emmy winner Michaela Coel as Sam Anselm, her estranged friend and former creative partner. A revered fashion designer, Sam is tasked with making the dress Mother Mary will wear at her comeback performance—but you’re never quite sure whether she’s going to finish the outfit or take her shiny, oversized shears and stab Hathaway in the heart.Despite that attempt, this haunting, fantastical movie is impossible to capture in a few words. It has a pop soundtrack with original songs by Jack Antonoff, Charli xcx, and FKA twigs (who also plays a psychic medium);…The post Texas’s Most Ambitious New Director Turns to Anne Hathaway for His Latest Release appeared first on Texas Monthly.
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