The Body Beautiful
03/10/1991
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.
Movie Information
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
Michael McKay
as
Nina McKay
as
Saffron Burrows
as Model
Nadja Carr
as Model
Ann Parks
as Model
Jane Yeomans
as Model
Novlet
as Model
