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The Body Beautiful

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Calorie Rating: 32
Released: 1991-10-03
Running Time: 23 Minutes
Studios: BFI,


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 / Directors

Kanayo Onwurah
Assistant Director


Cast

Madge Onwurah
Character: Narrator (voice) Mother/Herself
Rosie Rowell
Character: Narrator (voice) Daughter
Sian Ejiwunmi-Le Berre
Character: The Daughter (as Sian Martin)

Brian Bovell
Character: Young Man
Maureen Douglass
Character: Young Mother
Valentine Nonyela
Character: Peter



Saffron Burrows
Character: Model
Nadja Carr
Character: Model
Ann Parks
Character: Model

Jane Yeomans
Character: Model
Novlet
Character: Model


Production and Crew

Lin Solomon
Producer

Peter Collis
Director of Photography
Ben Gibson
Executive Producer
Kate Ogborn
Executive Producer

Jonathon Hirst
Original Music Composer
Anthony Quigley
Original Music Composer

Sarah Carr
Production Manager
Richard Gray
Sound Recordist
Mags Scholes
Boom Operator