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Cuties

Fathia Youssouf

Medina El Aidi

Esther Gohourou

Ilanah Cami-Goursolas

Myriam Hamma

Maïmouna Gueye

Mbissine Thérèse Diop

Demba Diaw

Mamadou Samaké

Jean-Paul Castro

Bilel Chegrani

Canelle Brival

Cyril Bossard

Vincent Cosson

Benjamin Fatras

Inès de la Bévière

Franck Giraud

Thibaut Macquart

Grégoire Chauvot

Damien Aubry

Marietou Ba

Lucie Baudinaud

Rémy Barbot

François Dupuis

Maïmouna Doucouré

Olivier Sarfati

Marc Stef

Agnes Jeanneau

Thomas Walser

François-Xavier Walter

Emma Petroni

Nicolas Fioraso

Jean-Michel Papazian

Valérie Ranchoux

Julie Wassef

Luc Serrano

Clémence Stoloff

Olga Pasternak

Zangro

Yann Maritaud

Nicolas Nocchi

Mathilde Van de Moortel

Tania Arana

Kenza Barrah

Angélique Vergara

Stéphane Mazalaigue

Julie Plumelle

Marion Chevance

Maëla Gervais

Thomas Averland

Fakhrya Fakhry

Olivier Jacob

Nicolas Bachelet

Marc Jeannel

Julie Reilles

Martial Venet

Rémi Carreau

Clément Maléo

Philippe Schillinger

Alexis Caresche

Cindy O'Hare

Rémi Canaple

Olivier Vitrant

Nicolas Berteyac

Maud Cyrano

Clémence Chevreux

Leïla Gentet

Johanna Makabi

Dorit Simone

Elsa Capus

Charles Fréville

Jeremie Oukrat

Bénédicte Kermadec

Marie Catanho

Right intentions, but rather awful execution.

I'll start off by saying I do believe the intentions of the filmmakers were positive. There are undoubtedly minors being exposed to similar themes to that of the film, so it's imperative that people - particularly parents - are made aware of this.

With that said, <em>'Cuties'</em> goes about it in entirely the wrong way. The message, which does become clear at the end, is to stop the exploitation of children - yet here they are doing just that. There are scenes and/or camera angles that simply should not have been filmed and shown. There is no need for certain shots.

More should've been left for the viewer to work out, as opposed to shoving it into our faces and therefore practically doing what they are criticising. For example, they could've zoomed away at particular points or got an extreme close up of the characters' eyes when they were doing sexualised things.

For what it's worth, I will say I respect the performance of lead Fathia Youssouf (Amy) - I felt a fair amount of emotion from her at certain points. None of the other cast members stick out in my memory, though none produce anything negative.

I've spent a long time thinking about how I was going to word my review, much longer than I usually would at least. It's slightly tricky as, as mentioned, I do believe it intended to do the right thing. Unfortunately though, it ends up - in my eyes - doing what it's trying to say is bad.

There are some extreme thoughts on this film, not all of which are right in my opinion. However, as said, it isn't a good watch - even if only judging on film merits.

If you have this any higher than a 1/10 you are a criminal & the F.B.I will be coming for you shortly.

Cuties | Official Trailer | Netflix

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