I surrendered to the weirdness of Anne Hathaway’s new film

Anne Hathaway has two new films hitting cinemas this month (Picture: A24)

It’s curious that there are two Anne Hathaway films revolving around fashion, where red fabric takes centre stage, being released imminently.

This is the other, Mother Mary, and it’s a far weirder prospect than the mainstream appeal of The Devil Wears Prada 2.

Whether that’s a good thing or not depends on your tolerance for the theatrical, the symbolic and the witchy.

Mother Mary is a movie of two halves: one is a full-scale pop superstar concert, musically powered by Charli XCX – and sold with dazzling conviction by Hathaway – which we keep dipping into.

The other is an intense drama about a break...