The Body Beautiful

6.3

/10

24m

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.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 identi... Read more

Starring Madge Onwurah, Sian Martin, Brian Bovell, Maureen Douglass, Valentine Nonyela, Saffron Burrows

It's a movie that has a rating of 6.3 out of 10 from Imdb which is usually fine for this kind of movie.