Maimouna Doucouré not imagine that their award-winning debut film of a history of coming-of-age from his personal experience designed to provoke international controversy and calls for a boycott. “Before the worldwide release of Cuties on Netflix on September 9” This film tries to show that our children, the children should be the time for me, this film is an alarm, “the French Senegalese told TIME Director, and we as adults should protect their innocence and hold them as long as possible innocent. “But as Netflix promotional materials taken to Cuties on August 19, Doucouré gave strong criticism, attacks and death threats, even by people who do not do once you’ve seen the movie. “It ‘was a strange moment for me because this film started his career, very, very good,” said Doucouré, competition won the prestigious Premio Regia this year in the World Cinema Dramatic section at the Sundance Film Festival’ Start. Cuties was one of the first on the festival and rights around the world were invited purchased from Netflix before its premiere. But the fury I grew from film release, as “#CancelNetflix” was the Top theme in the US on Twitter on September 10 in response to the Cuties. In a long statement, a spokesman for Netflix called Cuties adding “social criticism against the sexualization of children”, that “It is a winning film award and a strong story of young girls face pressure on social media and in society in general it grows up – and we would encourage everyone who cares about these important issues to see the movie. ” As controversy Marketing via Netflix In a step broke away from the original French theatrical poster, Netflix works of art depicting the four young female protagonists in provocative outfits and poses the film. Observers on social media jumped to the conclusion that the film sexualized young children. At least two garnering nearly 500,000 signatures petitions circulating asking Netflix to pull the film, a claim that his salary “for the viewing pleasure of pedophile.” The streaming service apologized on August 20 for the work “inappropriate” art movie advertising. On September 3, the supervision of the Turkish media Netflix has ordered the film from its platform in the country to be removed, on the basis of accusations that it contains images of child exploitation. But the opposite is true Doucouré labor agreement. Already released in France on August 19 to a positive reception, Cuties following 11 years Amy, a young Senegalese Muslim girls growing up in a poor neighborhood of Paris. The search for a sense of belonging, Amy becomes fascinated with a local group of young dancers, the same Cuties. Inspired by music videos and social media, learning the girl group exercises and provocative choreography and sexualized in preparation for a dance competition, a world away from his conservative domestic life. Cuties has received tremendous support and recognition from the international film industry, the French Government and the spectators in France and beyond. Speaking at the time of his native Paris, Doucouré says the reaction of those who have only seen the advertisements for Netflix movies can understand what “was actually not really represents the film.” “I just hope that these people will see the film, because then you will realize that everyone is actually on the same side of the fight against child hypersexualization,” he says. Since the controversy over the poster, actor Tessa Thompson, saw Cuties at Sundance, and high-ranking minister in the French government has defended Doucouré and the film. What does being a woman ‘Like other French directors of the West African lineage, including Ladj Ly (Les Misérables) and Mati Diop (Atlantics), Doucouré personal experiences have profoundly informed their art. She grew up in Paris Senegalese Muslim parents, lived with their nine children and two mothers in a polygamous family. “We always had fun,” she recalls. His growing 2,016 Short MAMAN (S), which also won an award at Sundance this year explored similar themes of complex family dynamics, and between different cultures. And ‘Doucouré own life story that forms the connections between MAMAN (S) and Cuties. “I tried to create the little girl that I was at that age to give a voice and look at what it means to be a woman,” says Amy Doucouré, protagonists Cuties’. Kim Yutani in Sundance programming director, the strength of the film lies in its authenticity. “For someone like Maimouna, her black experience, French, Muslim, you may feel Cuties. You see this world, lived in this world, and the ability he has to bring us in this experience is incredibly special,” says Yutani who it was familiar with and a fan of Doucouré from their previous MAMAN (S) work, and while the festival programmers often want for their films to spark conversation Yutani which Sundance emphasizes fully behind Doucouré amid the controversy. “We rely on our audience to have intelligent conversations, which are directly related to the film after seeing the film,” he says. Doucouré also has the support of the French government, who expressed his desire to Cuties teachers as a teaching tool to use, and invited them to be part of a working group to combat hypersexualization of children in society. As Doucouré a realistic portrait of pre-teen girls Doucouré was first inspired to see a group of young dancers girls made to perform on stage in a neighborhood meeting in the Paris suburbs. In the audience, several mothers and African mothers wear the veil, and on stage they were young girls dancing sensual and wearing revealing clothing. “It ‘was a real culture shock,” he says. “And ‘why I thought to myself, my childhood.” Doucouré, the self-taught filmmaker, then research the past 18 months, hundreds of young girls, pre-teens interviewed, collecting abandoned by their stories and experiences of material for adults and sexualized images on social media. Many of the film’s scenes are derived from young girls Doucouré anecdotes told. Amy steals his cousin and smartphone takes selfies with facial filters that make them much older than it actually is, rigid begin collecting on the screen as the same social media. Then you take a nude photo spreads rapidly under his fellow high school Cuties lead them to refuse. “There were actually many stories that were about as far as what you see in the film, and I just do not have the artistic courage to tell these stories on screen,” says Doucouré. “Stories of young girls, 12 year old prostitute. My blood clot All these stories just did, and it made me even more determined to make this film, and talk about this issue that is so prevalent in today’s society.” The fusion process and the production emphasizes the realism. Doucouré and his team look almost 700 young girls in their fusion investigated and those who were selected for the film, all the work for the first time. “Why were the children, I worked in a certain way,” says Doucouré, describes games played with the kids on set and how they encouraged her to see the different animals with the characterization, for help. And ‘this combination is forced childish naivety and open sexuality that makes viewing uncomfortable at times as a spectator to put their opinions on Amy’s body and Cuties. The real message behind Cuties Doucouré explains that she has told this story to Amy’s eyes, challenging the audience has been normalized to show through the hypersexualization of children. Cuties examines how girls are women, sometimes sooner than they should be forced into adulthood by the society in which they live, and the media they consume. “When I was young, I also see a lot of injustices around me women have lived,” said Doucouré. “We used to say that women are oppressed in other cultures, but the question that I had when making the film was: is not the objectification of the body of a woman often in Western culture of a different kind of see the ‘ oppression? “subjects Cuties’ speak Doucouré experience as a black man, the director, in a predominantly white, male sector. For César in 2017, where he received an award for MAMAN (S), Doucouré recalled how his mother reacted when she had said she wanted to work in film. “It is not for us,” he recalls telling his mother. “You have people like you see?” With Cuties, as with his career, Doucouré emphasizes that girls are broken to see barriers and different models of success. “This shows movie with these characters, as they should be limited in today’s society, to see a woman as an object, and that success comes from a woman to be objectified,” he says. When she did to explore her for the film, with some of the girls he interacted his Doucouré said he could not believe he was a director, because he thought she was too good for this occupation. “For me it is dangerous to think that way. For these girls, they see with their femininity some compatible careers,” she says. “We need to broaden their horizons, she that a greater role can imagine.” Two weeks of the initial game, posters on Netflix and in the last days before the start of the film on Doucouré platform has received many messages from people who had criticized his work to apologize right away and ask for forgiveness after their work examined and the true film’s message. And going forward, the director feels sure that critics of the film could be combined with her for the same thing. “I really hope that when the movie comes out, see it, and they will understand that those who criticize me were actually the same path as me.”
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