No argument here. I've not heard of this movie.

The film, which was released as “Mignonnes” in France and won a directing award from the Sundance Institute in February, follows an 11-year-old girl named Amy (Fathia Youssouf) as she tries to find her place growing up in a poor suburb of Paris. At home, Amy has to please her family, who are observant Muslims from Senegal, but she eventually falls in with a group of friends who have their own dance troupe in defiance of her family’s strict rules.

Maïmouna Doucouré, the film’s director, said in an interview with Netflix that the movie incorporated elements of her own childhood in its portrayal of Amy’s struggles between two distinct modes of femininity: one dictated by the traditional values of her Senegalese and Muslim upbringing, the other by Western society.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/12/movies/cuties-netflix.html

I got an email from Netflix listing their most popular shows and this one included. I have not watched it. Sounds a lot like Footloose or Bend It Like Beckham. Young girl rebels against the constraints of conservative family.

I watched it. A few of the dancing scenes made me really uncomfortable but that's the reality of the world today, and I think it was a good commentary on the environment that many young girls are growing up in.

From what I am seeing on social media, those calling for cancelling Netflix are saying there is pornographic images of children in the movie. Of course none of them have watched it, I haven’t either. Thank you Debby and Chi for sharing.

just think where those cameramen had to be to get some of those shots. it shouldn't be broadcast ... but netflicks says it won awards, so it is showing it.

the moral decline continues

never heard of it.

"the moral decline continues"

It's a foreign film. It doesn't sound like one I would be interested in but say it interests you and doesn't interest me, it's not my concern or my right to tell you or control what you should be able to watch.

The US is prudish and puritanical compared to most other developed countries in terms of human and sexual attitudes. Too great an influence of religious extremists play a role and are a partial cause of that, embarrassingly so. That notwithstanding, people can always choose or not choose to watch a particular film or show.

The decline in intelligence is far more widespread and far more dangerous than any perceived decline in morals, which I believe not to exist anyway.

Edit to add:

Someone with a not normal attitude about children would have other sources and wouldn't resort to a movie in general release.

I heard about the controversy but wouldn’t be inclined to watch the movie because the subject isn’t of interest to me. Thank you for posting your opinions, Debby and Chi.

What I find offensive is the continued popularity of child beauty pageants, which certainly objectify and sexualize actual little girls, in the US. Which, by the way, France has banned.

^^I agree about the vulgarity of child beauty pageants. I am surprised that they are still allowed. Talent contests, sure, but dressing little girls up like grown women with huge hair, more make-up than you see on the average woman, fake nails, false eyelashes, etc. is just wrong IMO.

A preteen or early teen girl can't get into the pageant stuff on their own. Look for the actions of her mother as a root cause. And, usually, look at the unhealthy emphasis the mother puts on her own appearance and conduct as a contributing factor. Often done to combat low self-esteem or as a result of lacking better ways and more important things to spend time on.

"What I find offensive is the continued popularity of child beauty pageants.......Which, by the way, France has banned."

French attitudes are much more modern and enlightened than ours. This has been the case for a very long time.

My 39 year old son was just at my house and was actually shocked that we watched it. He saw a trailer for it (I'm assuming it was the last dance scene as it's the "sexiest" that made me the most uncomfortable) and said he refuses to watch it and he's very open minded. We did have a very good discussion about the movie. The film was filmed in Europe and they're a LOT more open minded than those of us here in North America. That being said, I still think the dance scenes did cross a line though.