The Body Beautiful
1991 · 25 MIN · IMDB 6.3 · 201 VOTES · DIR. Ngozi Onwurah
Overview
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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00:00:20 MADGE". No,Ngozi.
00:01:05 After he qualified, our family went to live in Africa.
00:02:01 "These days, we do more mastectomies in this place
00:03:00 But the pain hounded her
00:03:48 Mummy?
00:04:28 some of your husband's large, white handkerchiefs
00:05:29 Say goodnight to your mam.
00:06:17 It was almost possible to love my scars
00:06:44 protecting me from rejection and disgust
00:07:18 to the sight of my mother's naked body.
00:08:08 WOMAN". Stretch-fitted, super sexy dresses.
00:09:02 I had been neutered.
00:09:41 where even 90-year-old grannies went to saunas.
00:12:22 Hey, Matty. Gi' us ten pence, go on.
00:13:09 MAN 2: You are a puff then.
00:14:10 A forbidden fantasy, a fairy tale with no beginning.
00:16:27 Don't be so uptight.
00:16:48 PHOTOGRAPHER". Power up the wind machine.
00:17:09 PHOTOGRAPHER: Use your hair.
00:17:28 - Touch her! - Stop it, stop it!
00:18:34 what it would be like to have no breasts.
00:19:43 That I was sorry.
00:20:44 A child is made in its parent's image
00:21:31 I am my mother's daughter for the rest of my life.
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