Mignonnes

The people who did this movie should be accused of child abuse, together with the people who let this happen. As a parent of young girls, this thing is unacceptable.

Its one thing to try and describe underaged children being subjected to sexual behavior, its another thing to actually enact that behavior.

This is simply a movie for perverts who like underaged children, and somehow it got through all checkpoints and got published.

I initially thought that most of the people who where outraged by this movie where exaggerating, as that is the case for a lot of other questionable movies, so I decided to have a look at it, and I am utterly disgusted, did not even make it through the whole movie.

The story is the story of the mother, not the daughter. Yet, at a certain point somebody decided that sexing up very young women would make it a way better movie. I simply don't get French cinematography in the last two decades. So many movies who lack a plot, but are very concerned with the sex lives of people 6 to 16.

As for empowering women, this is the precise opposite. It simply plays the role of the abusive old woman who would cut the clitoris off the young woman if she were from East Africa instead of West Africa. It is about keeping women in their place, obedient and voila! you get bliss.

If the cast were male it would've been a non issue. I've seen reviews saying to cast the 12 year old girls with 18year olds? How would that work exactly? With all the controversy I thought I'd see something worse than what's on 10 million tik tok accounts. There's never anybody screaming to cancel tik tok or periscope or twitter or Facebook or instagram for the same reasons they want Netflix canceled. What the lead character goes through with her ultra religious and conservative traditional mother is heart breaking. And she gives a fantastic acting performance. I would've never have heard of this movie or seen it if it wasn't for people losing their minds over it.

Ever hear of a discretion shot? Implied content? Suggestive camera angles? No one involved in the making of this movie did. Here's a hint: most of the "naked" scenes in movies involved clothed actors being shown from the shoulders up, so you get the idea, without flashing the studio and theater. You can ALLUDE to things happening but for the love of all that's good, DO NOT actually show despicable content on camera. Because then you're not teaching a lesson to change things. You're just exasperating the exact problem you're trying to solve. You can have child actresses, or you can have sexualized content. You can't put the two together and claim moral superiority.

Cuties fails the very ones it claims to want to protect in the worst possible way. That not one person making the movie realized this, is almost comically sad.

No stars. I rate this movie a zero. Low budget trash depicting very young girls in a vile and disturbing sexual manner.