The Body Beautiful (1991)
Synopsis
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.
Release Date: 1991-10-03
Runtime: 25 minutes
Director: Ngozi Onwurah
Top 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
- Valentine Nonyela as Peter
- Louis Altinson as
- Linda Dobson as
- Richard Gray as
- Haley McKay as
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