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The Body Beautiful

6.2 23 mins Drama   1991
BFI  
Director(s): Ngozi Onwurah

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.

Casts of The Body Beautiful

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

Saffron Burrows

as Model

Nadja Carr

as Model

Ann Parks

as Model

Jane Yeomans

as Model

Novlet

as Model

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