'Cuties’ director says Netflix film doesn't hypersexualize young girls: https://t.co/srWKP2tdis pic.twitter.com/EHQgC7PtG0
— The Hollywood Reporter (@THR) September 15, 2020
Cuties (Mignonnes) director Maïmouna Doucoure has defended her French indie film on Netflix from accusations that it hyper-sexualizes girls, because according to her, the film 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.
In Cuties, a preteen girl leaves her senegalese family background so she can fit in by joining a group of dancers (who are also little girls) as tradition and teenage rebellion collide.
"It's bold, its feminist, but it's so important and necessary to create debate and try to find solutions, for me as an artist, for politicians and parents. It's a real issue," the director argued.
"It's important to see someone like you on the screen, and to grow up with a lot of possibilities. So, of course, diversity and inclusion have to be the keys to progress in our cinema," she argued.
Netflix in a statement to The Hollywood Reporter defended Cuties as "a social commentary against the sexualization of young children. It's an award winning film and a powerful story about the pressure young girls face on social media and from society more generally growing up - and we'd encourage anyone who cares about these important issues to watch the movie."
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Doucouré said she “created a climate of trust between the children and myself” during filming, adding, “I explained to them everything I was doing and the research that I had done before I wrote this story. I was also lucky that these girls’ parents were also activists, so we were all on the same side. At their age, they’ve seen this kind of dance. Any child with a telephone can find these images on social media these days.”
“However, these were composite shots, so the girls weren’t dancing like that all the time,” the director continued. “We also worked with a child psychologist throughout the filming. She’s still working with the children, because I want to make sure that they can navigate this newfound stardom.”
I do believe she's concerned with the welfare of her child actors and she's trying to make sure they're okay. However, I kind of also think that maybe we need to rethink if it's even worth the risk of having child actors, given how like negatively being a child star can impact them, even when they're not acting in things like this.
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Not every child actor ends up being preyed upon in Hollywood. I know plenty of child actors who grew up doing theater and children's TV, and they're basically fine. It's the kids who are thrown onto adult sets doing mature programming that I really worry about. It's not right for a kid to spend hours a day working with just adults, no other kids.
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Composite shots my ass. It's not like they had a puppeteer doing the sexualized moves, it was still the damn girls. And having a child psychologist?? So what? Children still won't understand what's happening because that's the goddamn problem in the first place!!
I so wanted her to be vindicated, but she is so many levels of stupid.
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I was with a friend who was watching family guy on netflix (not my thing) but there was one episode where there were so many "jokes" about children that were quite frankly disturbing to me. Call me a prude or whatever the hell you want but I don't want to see this shit, I almost don't want any children in TV/movies at this point.
September 15 2020, 18:26:43 UTC 4 months ago
this has been normalized though lol. children pageants; children dance competitions and young girls as cheerleaders have been standard parts of us mainstream culture for decades.
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another creepy american "culture" is hard to understand.
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compared to dance moms where only one mom seems concerned and yet still seems to let her daughter dance
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This is so... perturbing. The song choice. The outfits. The choreography. The audience.
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2) I will never respect these mothers who pimped their daughters for exposure. All of them are trash and should be shamed. Holly can cry about how racist and abusive Abby Lee was all she wants, SHE still happily cashed the checks for years.
3) The girls aren't even in sync and that choreography is terrible. It's just pure shock value! For that same level of energy, they could've had something better and age-appropriate.
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I understand she wanted to make a movie about an issue, but I think she went about it the wrong way, either because of inexperience or being too close to the subject. You don't need to shoot those scenes that way to get the point across.
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I'm not kidding.
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