The Body Beautiful
Release Date: 1991-10-03
Overview: This bold, stunning exploration of a white mother who undergoes a radical mastectomy and her Black daughter who embarks on a modeling career reveals the profound effects of body image and the strain of racial and sexual identity on their charged, intensely loving bond. At the heart of Onwurah’s brave excursion into her mother’s scorned sexuality is a provocative interweaving of memory and fantasy. The filmmaker plumbs the depths of maternal strength and daughterly devotion in an unforgettable tribute starring her real-life mother, Madge Onwurah.
Rating: 5.9 / 10
Cast
Madge Onwurah
as Narrator (voice) Mother/Herself
Rosie Rowell
as Narrator (voice) Daughter
Sian Ejiwunmi-Le Berre
as The Daughter (as Sian Martin)
Brian Bovell
as Young Man
Maureen Douglass
as Young Mother
Crew
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Mags Scholes - Boom Operator
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Richard Gray - Sound Recordist
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Ngozi Onwurah - Director
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Lin Solomon - Producer
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Ngozi Onwurah - Writer
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