Daily Edit | Apr 17

The film is split into two contrasting modes: Hathaway and Coel largely enact a two-woman play within the confines of designer Sam’s atelier, where a broken and humanized Mary begs her former friend for a dress so good she could have a proper pop rebirth. The other part is Mary in god-like pop diva mode, commanding the stage with enough otherworldly magnetism to make clear that this star has created a cult-like, multi-generational fanbase. But Hathaway needed to unlock the broken, desperate, pleading humanity of Mother Mary first; she went into the movie largely blind of what the songs would sound like, save early demos of Burial and Holy Spirit, written by Charli xcx and Jack Antonoff. -The Guardian

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