The Body Beautiful
23 mins
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.
Madge Onwurah
Narrator (voice) Mother/Herself
Maureen Douglass
Young Mother
Nadja Carr
Model
Ann Parks
Model
Jane Yeomans
Model
Novlet
Model
Mags Scholes
Boom Operator
Richard Gray
Sound Recordist
Lin Solomon
Producer
Simon Onwurah
Producer
Liz Webber
Editor
Peter Collis
Director of Photography
Kate Ogborn
Executive Producer
Kanayo Onwurah
Assistant Director
Jonathon Hirst
Original Music Composer
Anthony Quigley
Original Music Composer
Sarah Carr
Production Manager
Ben Gibson
Executive Producer