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, Cuties 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. Later, Youssouf won the César Award for Most Promising Actress. The film premiered in the World Cinema Dramatic Competition of the 2020 Sundance Film Festival on 23 January, where Doucouré won the Directing Award. Casting took six months, and principal photography took three months, with a psychologist assisting the child actresses throughout. Doucouré wrote the script using inspirations from an inappropriate talent show she happened to walk across one day, as well as her experience as a Senegalese-French person. The filmmakers claimed that it is intended to criticise the hypersexualisation of pre-adolescent girls. The plot revolves around Amy (Youssouf), a Senegalese-French girl with a traditional Muslim upbringing who is caught between traditional values and Internet culture when she joins a twerking dance crew. The film stars Fathia Youssouf, Médina El Aidi-Azouni, Esther Gohourou, Ilanah Cami-Goursolas and Maïmouna Gueye. The most tornadoes spawned by a single tropical cyclone were associated with Hurricane Ivan, which spawned 120 tornadoes.Cuties ( French: Mignonnes) is a 2020 French coming-of-age drama film written and directed by Maïmouna Doucouré in her feature directorial debut. Within the United States 1,163 tornadoes were associated with tropical cyclones, accounting for slightly under 6% of all tornadoes. The list is most complete for the U.S., but does include other areas. These are the tropical cyclones that are known to have spawned tornadoes.
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