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.

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  Ngozi Onwurah
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  Kanayo Onwurah

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  Madge Onwurah
  Narrator (voice) Mother/Herself
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  Rosie Rowell
  Narrator (voice) Daughter
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  Sian Ejiwunmi-Le Berre
  The Daughter (as Sian Martin)
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  Brian Bovell
  Young Man
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  Maureen Douglass
  Young Mother
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  Valentine Nonyela
  Peter
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  Louis Altinson
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  Linda Dobson
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  Richard Gray
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  Haley McKay
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  Michael McKay
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  Nina McKay
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  Saffron Burrows
  Model
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  Nadja Carr
  Model
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  Ann Parks
  Model
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  Jane Yeomans
  Model
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  Novlet
  Model