New Netflix film casts the Bible’s Mary in a ‘new light’

Director aims to make the world’s “greatest” woman “accessible to all.”

(Christopher Raphael | Netflix) Noa Cohen plays Mary in the Netflix film "Mary."

(Christopher Raphael | Netflix) Noa Cohen plays Mary in the Netflix film "Mary."

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