Cuties Movie

This article was originally published on Meeting of Minds UK. In September, the New York Times published an article about the experiences of young Black girls and teenagers during the pandemic. A phenomenon known as ‘parentification’- when children must grow up quickly and take on adult-like roles within the home…

(Originally published on glenslens.wordpress.com on September 29, 2020) It’s an understatement to say that people across the country have strong feelings towards the film Cuties. Though the film received critical acclaim at Sundance in January (then under its original title Mignonnes), countless Americans were outraged when its international poster and…

“My aesthetic perspective is to hold a mirror in front of the world so that we as adults are able to see what we have created.” -Maïmouna Doucouré, writer-director of “Cuties” Understanding the Hysteria There is nothing new about mass hysteria surrounding films, sometimes before those films are even released. Usually this hysteria…

by Amanda Almonord This story was originally published on the Brooklyn News Service. When Sabrina Yvonne’s 13-year-old sister asked her to watch the French coming of age drama Mignonnes or Cuties as it’s known in the United States, she didn’t think anything of it. …

Hello Netflix, meet self sabotage. You’re not the only leadership and organization to miscalculate on judgment and make reckless, expensive, painful decisions. You have bad company. The technology, media services provider and production company decided to “ride” with the product offering “Cuties,” a film about pre-teen Parisian girls who are…

This essay may contain spoilers for “Revenge” (2017) and “Cuties” (2020). It contains mentions of harassment and sexual assault. An undergraduate student recently reached out to me seeking advice on a short film they’re directing about a phone sex operator. They had concerns that through their direction, they might perpetuate…

And he said to his disciples, “Temptations to sin are sure to come, but woe to the one through whom they come! It would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck and he were cast into the sea than that he should cause one of…