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The Body Beautiful
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.
Director and cast
- Ngozi Onwurah Director
- Madge Onwurah as Narrator (voice) Mother/Herself
- Rosie Rowell as Narrator (voice) Daughter
- Saffron Burrows Cast
- Sian Ejiwunmi-Le Berre as The Daughter (as Sian Martin)
- Maureen Douglass as Young Mother
- Brian Bovell as Young Man
- Valentine Nonyela as Peter
- Louis Altinson Cast
- Linda Dobson Cast
- Richard Gray Cast
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