The Body Beautiful (1991)
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.
Year
1991
Country
GB
Language
English
Release date
3 October 1991
TMDB
6.3 (19)
CineVerse
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Ratings
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M
Madge Onwurah
Narrator (voice) Mother/Herself
Rosie Rowell
Narrator (voice) Daughter
Sian Ejiwunmi-Le Berre
The Daughter (as Sian Martin)
Brian Bovell
Young Man
M
Maureen Douglass
Young Mother
Valentine Nonyela
Peter
L
Louis Altinson
L
Linda Dobson
R
Richard Gray
H
Haley McKay
M
Michael McKay
N
Nina McKay
Saffron Burrows
Model
N
Nadja Carr
Model
A
Ann Parks
Model
J
Jane Yeomans
Model
N
Novlet
Model
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