Cuties

Name: Cuties
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Released: September 9, 2020
Duration: 96 min
Rating: 67
Cast: Bilel Chegrani, Demba Diaw, Esther Gohourou, Fathia Youssouf Abdillahi, Ilanah Cami-Goursolas

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Bac Films | Release Date (Streaming): September 9, 2020 | TV-MA

Starring: Bilel Chegrani, Demba Diaw, Esther Gohourou, Fathia Youssouf Abdillahi, Ilanah Cami-Goursolas, Maïmouna Gueye, Mamadou Samaké, Mbissine Thérèse Diop, Medina El Aidi, Myriam Hamma

Summary: Amy, an 11-year-old girl, joins a group of dancers named "the cuties" at school, and rapidly grows aware of her burgeoning femininity - upsetting her mother and her values in the process.

Director: Denny Shoopman and Maïmouna Doucouré

Genre(s): Drama, Comedy

Rating: TV-MA

Runtime: 96 min

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RogerEbert.com Monica Castillo

Sep 10, 2020

The movie is so much more nuanced and bold than the first wave of outrage charged. With Cuties, Doucouré announces herself as a director with a keen visual style who’s unafraid to explore these cultural and social tensions. Read full review

Justin Chang

Sep 8, 2020

Society’s rampant sexualization of preadolescent girls is one topic that Doucouré subjects to tough critical scrutiny; she’s made an empathetic and analytical movie, not an exploitative one. Read full review

Richard Brody

Sep 17, 2020

Doucouré pays keen attention to Amy’s quest for a self-made identity—and to a sexualized, commercialized mainstream culture that deludes children, especially those raised in cultural isolation. The film’s ultimate subject is the ghetto itself; a remarkable symbolic ending redefines French identity. Read full review

IndieWire Kate Erbland

Jan 25, 2020

Although Doucouré steeps Cuties in emotion and experience, she abandons its grace to make crazier gestures. Read full review

The Guardian Peter Bradshaw

Sep 15, 2020

The film and its accusers turn out to be on the same side: Mignonnes attacks the pornification of girls and young women by social media and society in general; it is about the false promise of liberation in this kind of sexualised display. The offending scenes are gruesomely unwatchable – deliberately so. Read full review

David Rooney

Jan 25, 2020

Writer-director Maïmouna Doucouré's captivating but structurally shaky first feature is stronger on setup than development or payoff, becoming less controlled as its opposing forces of tradition and rebellion collide. Read full review

Amy Nicholson

Jan 25, 2020

Cuties' job is to coil the contrasting messages and spin them until her lead falls down dizzy, which can make the film feel as subtle as a headache. Read full review

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dnebhjesnbhjxdk

Sep 9, 2020

why this film is good is because the story is smartly blended with growing up in todays society wiht social hiarhcy and i look at todays opression with sense of style and comedy

7 of 81 users found this helpful774

jennifer_vinnie

Oct 23, 2020

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I get the director’s intention of wanting to bring awareness to the issue regarding young girls sexualising themselves due to being influenced by social media. The movie itself...doesn’t show that.

The movie itself made its original intent blurry. Is it trying to bring awareness to the issue by exposing the harsh truths or is it just a movie that relies on shock value to simply make audiences barf? The resolution itself is also unclear. The ending is just Amy reverting back to a normal girl and playing jump rope with other kids. But the other loose threads like what happened to the rest of the dance crew or if Amy ends up facing harsher consequences for her more questionable actions like posting a picture of her privates online or pushing Yasmine into a lake (thankfully not drowning).

The film itself is the example of presenting the problem (the sexualisation of young girls) and not giving a proper resolution for it.

And let’s not get into the rather questionable ethics of casting child actresses to do horrendous things like dancing sensually. Thank goodness nothing else bad happened (aside from, y’know, what they just did). Now I get that the movie is trying to expose brutal honesty, but for all their talk on how bad this is, the camera shots and angles glamourises it. It’s like trying to kill actual people just to say “murder is bad” or actually raping the actor/actress just to say “rape is bad”.

The only redeeming qualities are at least we know that we should be more aware of what children browse on social media, how sexualising oneself won’t give you actual freedom and to never let your children star in movies where they will be sexualised.

I would at least wish that the director can learn from her mistakes and hopefully not repeat it if she wants to make another movie. She may have created Cuties, but we al know she meant no actual malice (unlike the Sundance co-founder, who is much, MUCH worse).… Expand

3 of 4 users found this helpful31

matthews23544

Dec 5, 2021

I love this movie, I was impossible to not get turned on in the theatre when they started dancing. 10/10 would recommend

1 of 2 users found this helpful11

Konjak8

Oct 2, 2020

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Just stupiddd bedofile movie ............................ ........................… Expand

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Cutiesiscrap

Sep 11, 2020

Cuties is for pedos Jeffrey Epstein is probably looking down at us from pedo heaven or some **** jerking of to this piece of **** of a movie

4 of 5 users found this helpful41

RaidenLucifer

Sep 10, 2020

This is literally pedophilia. Half naked 11 year olds dancing and becoming cam girls on porn sites. Don't watch this. It is worse than trash

14 of 15 users found this helpful141

AkkiKishore

Sep 18, 2020

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Sexualizes children. Enough said. I just feel bad for the actors. F the producers. F Netflix. Canceling my subscription.… Expand

2 of 2 users found this helpful20

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