Mother Mary: the exorcist wears Prada

The Exhausting Metaphors of "Mother Mary" - Chicago Review of Books

Like the great novels dissected in every honors literature class, Mother Mary is not a love story and it’s not a ghost story. It is a feast of metaphors to be devoured and tasted and dissected. Watching this movie feels like engaging in textual analysis, down to the presence and symbolism of the color red. Much like those classes spent analyzing and parsing dense texts, one sentence at a time, Mother Mary is an exercise in patience and theory. I…

Mother Mary: the exorcist wears Prada

By Charles Hubbard, Second Year, Theatre & PerformanceIt’s no secret that David Lowery has a slight obsession with ghosts. In fact, if the tagline for his most recent effort is to be taken at face value, it’s a reputation he’s very much aware of and is potentially getting a little tired of. This may be conjecture on my part but when you sell your new film as ‘This is not a ghost story’ after your biggest critical success was called A Ghost Story…