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.
Type:
MOVIE
Country:
GB
Genres:
Drama
Release:
October 1991
Production:
BFI
Cast:
Madge Onwurah, Rosie Rowell, Sian Ejiwunmi-Le Berre, Brian Bovell, Maureen Douglass, Valentine Nonyela, Louis Altinson, Linda Dobson, Richard Gray, Haley McKay, Michael McKay, Nina McKay, Saffron Burrows, Nadja Carr, Ann Parks, Jane Yeomans, Novlet
