The Body Beautiful
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.
The Body Beautiful
October 3, 1991
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Cast (17)
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
N/A
Linda Dobson
N/A
Richard Gray
N/A
Haley McKay
N/A
Michael McKay
N/A
Nina McKay
N/A
Saffron Burrows
Model
Nadja Carr
Model
Ann Parks
Model
Jane Yeomans
Model
Novlet
Model
Crew (14)
Directing
Ngozi Onwurah
Director
Kanayo Onwurah
Assistant Director
Writing
Ngozi Onwurah
Writer
Production
Kate Ogborn
Executive Producer
Simon Onwurah
Producer
Sarah Carr
Production Manager
Lin Solomon
Producer
Ben Gibson
Executive Producer
Sound
Mags Scholes
Boom Operator
Richard Gray
Sound Recordist
Jonathon Hirst
Original Music Composer
Anthony Quigley
Original Music Composer
Art
No data availableCamera
Peter Collis
Director of Photography
Costume & Make-Up
No data availableCrew
No data availableEditing
Liz Webber
Editor