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The Body Beautiful

10/03/1991

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0hr 25min

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Drama

STORY

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.

CAST & CREW

    Cast

  • Madge Onwurah
  • Rosie Rowell
  • Sian Ejiwunmi-Le Berre
  • Brian Bovell
  • Maureen Douglass

    Directors

  • Mags Scholes
  • Ngozi Onwurah
  • Peter Collis
  • Kanayo Onwurah

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

  • BFI

    Production Countries

  • United Kingdom

LANGUAGES

  • English

Cast

Madge Onwurah

Narrator (voice) Mother/Herself

Rosie Rowell

Narrator (voice) Daughter

Sian Ejiwunmi-Le Berre

The Daughter (as Sian Martin)

Brian Bovell

Young Man

Maureen Douglass

Young Mother

Valentine Nonyela

Peter

Louis Altinson

Linda Dobson

Haley McKay

Michael McKay

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