In the end, Amy abandons both the traditional wedding dress and her provocative dancer's outfit, living a normal youth lifestyle. Amy's mother permits her not to go, but states that she herself must go to fulfill her duty as a wife. Amy implores her mother to allow Amy to not attend the wedding, in order to demonstrate her disapproval. Amy's mother intervenes by telling her to leave her daughter alone and then hugs her to reassure her. Upon her return, she runs into her aunt, who blames her for her outfit and recent attitude.
Suddenly thinking about her mother during the routine, Amy bursts into tears and leaves before their performance ends. The highly suggestive dance routine polarized audiences. She pushes Yasmine into a canal, so the Cuties have no choice but to allow her to dance with them. While her father's wedding day corresponds to the finale at the Parc de la Villette, she is determined to dance with them, and sneaks out of the house. Her mother also yells at her for committing such indecent actions. This in turn also causes a rift between her and the Cuties, who ban her from performing with them being replaced with former member Yasmine. Following a humiliation at school where she gets pantsed after fighting with a rival dance group, Amy steals her cousin’s phone and sends a photo of her vulva online to a social network in an attempt to look mature, backfiring heavily with her being ostracised. Encouraged by the quest for online recognition, Amy decides to incorporate sexually suggestive dance moves into the choreography.
They do not hesitate to adopt revealing outfits in the image of their older rivals, the Sweety Swags. Amy is fascinated by her disobedient neighbour Angelica's pre-teen twerking clique, the Cuties, which is in stark contrast to Mariam's Muslim customs. She is also bored with Islamic culture that her aunt seeks to impress on her. She helplessly witnesses her mother suffer as her polygynous husband prepares to return with a second wife. Netflix has defended the film.Īmy, an 11-year-old girl from Senegal, lives with her mother Mariam and two younger brothers, one of them named Ishmael, in an apartment in one of Paris's poorest neighbourhoods.
The film received overwhelming criticism following its release on Netflix and cases of review bombs and subscription cancellations surged, popularised by the hashtag #CancelNetflix. While receiving generally positive reviews from critics for its ambition and acting as well as receiving accolades, it became a subject of controversy, starting from Netflix's initial promotional poster that was widely considered inappropriate. It was released in France on 19 August 2020 by BAC Films and internationally on 9 September 2020 on Netflix. Ĭuties premiered at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival on 23 January, where Doucouré won the Directing Award.
Principal photography took three months, with a psychologist assisting the child actresses throughout. Casting took six months, with more than 600 girls being auditioned for the role of Amy. The script later won an award at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival. She said that it is intended to criticise the hypersexualisation of pre-adolescent girls, with over 18 months of research. The film's ensemble cast is led by Fathia Youssouf who portrays Amy, a Senegalese-French girl with a traditional Muslim upbringing who is caught between traditional Muslim values and Internet culture when she joins a twerking dance crew.ĭoucouré was inspired to write the script upon seeing a suggestive youth talent show one day, as well as from her experience as a Senegalese-French person. Cuties ( French: Mignonnes) is a 2020 French coming-of-age drama film written and directed by Maïmouna Doucouré in her feature directorial debut.
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