Netflix Responds to ‘Cuties’ Criticism: Film Is ‘Social Commentary Against the Sexualization of Young Children’

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Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorThe firestorm over controversial Netflix film “Cuties,” which led to a huge spike in U.S.

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Maimouna Doucouré is speaking out following the massive backlash her movie, Cuties, is getting.

Netflix last week and it has become the target of heightened politicized outrage from members of Congress, including U.S. Sen.

Cuties director Maïmouna Doucouré has defended her French indie film on Netflix from accusations that it hyper-sexualizes prepubescent girls, as she argued her directorial debut aimed at social commentary and change. "It's because I saw so many things and so many issues around me lived by young girls, that I decided to make this film and sound an alarm and say, 'We need to protect our children,'" Doucouré told a TIFF panel on French filmmakers Monday.

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Netflix‘s Cuties for child pornography, after the film generated huge controversy upon release.Maïmouna Doucouré’s film tells the story of Amy, an 11-year-old caught between the traditional values of her Senegalese Muslim upbringing and internet culture which sexualises young girls once she joins a dance group called ‘the cuties’.While Netflix has said that the film is “a social commentary against the sexualization of young children,” it has drawn criticism for its sexualised depiction of

Qanon conspiracy regarding the Netflix movie “Cuties,” claiming that the movie is for pedophiles. Her guest, Matt Walsh, said that “major media figures” are “circling the perv wagons” around the film as they defend it from conspiracy theorists.A French film, “Cuties” is about a preteen girl who rebels against her hyperconservative religious mother by joining a dance team — but that dance team sexualizes the girls, and creates new emotional issues for this girl and her friends.

Dade Hayes Finance EditorCuties continues to keep Netflix in the spotlight, for reasons other than what was envisioned when the company acquired the French film at Sundance in 2019.Directed by Maïmouna Doucouré, the film (titled Mignonnes in French) takes aim at society’s sexualization of girls, through an ensemble of 11-year-old girls.

hugely controversial for its perceived sexualization of children.Over 610,000 people have signed a Change.org petition demanding Netflix subscribers cancel their subscriptions in protest of the company’s decision to stream the film beginning Sept.

Netflix has issued a response as the film “Cuties” (French film “Mignonnes”) continues to be slammed over its alleged sexualized portrayal of children.

Netflix has defended the controversial film Cuties as “a social commentary against the sexualisation of young children”, and encouraged people to watch the movie before passing judgment.