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Well, there goes their chances for a hipster bailout.
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Surprise, surprise, Netflix's CEO is still defending the movie.
https://www.latimes.com/entertainme...0-10-13/cuties-netflix-movie-ceo-ted-sarandos [A]
OCT. 13, 2020 | 11:51 AM
Netflix Chief Executive Ted Sarandos is not entertaining any backlash to the controversial French film “Cuties,” which many detractors have accused of sexualizing young girls.
Appearing at Monday’s virtual Mipcom marketing event, Sarandos reportedly defended Maïmouna Doucouré's award-winning debut feature about an 11-year-old Senegalese immigrant in France who rebels against her conservative family values and joins a “free-spirited dance crew.”
“It’s a little surprising in 2020 America that we’re having a discussion about censoring storytelling,” Sarandos said, according to Deadline. “It’s a film that is very misunderstood with some audiences, uniquely within the United States.
“The film speaks for itself. It’s a very personal coming-of-age film. It’s the director’s story, and the film has obviously played very well at Sundance without any of this controversy and played in theaters throughout Europe without any of this controversy.”
In August, Netflix’s poster for the French drama ignited harsh criticism and an online petition to remove the title from the platform. The streaming giant promptly apologized for and changed the “inappropriate artwork” — which pictured its four preteen stars posing in costumes baring their legs and midriffs — but stood by the film.
Despite Netflix’s damage-control efforts, many continued to make assumptions about the movie and criticize its director, who received a personal apology from Sarandos while fielding “numerous death threats.” After “Cuties” premiered on Netflix internationally last month, a grand jury in Texas went so far as to indict the streaming service for “promotion of lewd visual material depicting a child.”
“I received numerous attacks on my character from people who had not seen the film, who thought I was actually making a film that was apologetic about hypersexualization of children,” Doucouré told Deadline in September, adding she hoped the haters would “understand that we’re actually on the same side of this battle” after watching the movie.
“I really put my heart into this film,” she said. “It’s actually my personal story as well as the story of many children who have to navigate between a liberal Western culture and a conservative culture at home.”
In a September column for the Los Angeles Times, culture critic Mary McNamara characterized “Cuties” as “an imperfect but insightful portrait of a girl beset by so many opposing forces” and noted it defied her expectations.
“What I found was a film about rage,” she wrote. “That sudden, inchoate, unidentifiable female fury that rises in so many girls, often self-destructively, when they realize that certain rules are not about protecting them but controlling them.
“‘Cuties’ is not about a girl coming to terms with her sexuality; sexuality doesn’t factor into any of her actions. It’s about a girl coming to terms with the nature of power and her immediate, and potentially lifelong, lack of it.”
https://www.latimes.com/entertainme...0-10-13/cuties-netflix-movie-ceo-ted-sarandos [A]
Netflix CEO defends ‘Cuties,’ calls the film uniquely ‘misunderstood’ in the U.S
By CHRISTI CARRAS | STAFF WRITEROCT. 13, 2020 | 11:51 AM
Netflix Chief Executive Ted Sarandos is not entertaining any backlash to the controversial French film “Cuties,” which many detractors have accused of sexualizing young girls.
Appearing at Monday’s virtual Mipcom marketing event, Sarandos reportedly defended Maïmouna Doucouré's award-winning debut feature about an 11-year-old Senegalese immigrant in France who rebels against her conservative family values and joins a “free-spirited dance crew.”
“It’s a little surprising in 2020 America that we’re having a discussion about censoring storytelling,” Sarandos said, according to Deadline. “It’s a film that is very misunderstood with some audiences, uniquely within the United States.
“The film speaks for itself. It’s a very personal coming-of-age film. It’s the director’s story, and the film has obviously played very well at Sundance without any of this controversy and played in theaters throughout Europe without any of this controversy.”
In August, Netflix’s poster for the French drama ignited harsh criticism and an online petition to remove the title from the platform. The streaming giant promptly apologized for and changed the “inappropriate artwork” — which pictured its four preteen stars posing in costumes baring their legs and midriffs — but stood by the film.
Despite Netflix’s damage-control efforts, many continued to make assumptions about the movie and criticize its director, who received a personal apology from Sarandos while fielding “numerous death threats.” After “Cuties” premiered on Netflix internationally last month, a grand jury in Texas went so far as to indict the streaming service for “promotion of lewd visual material depicting a child.”
“I received numerous attacks on my character from people who had not seen the film, who thought I was actually making a film that was apologetic about hypersexualization of children,” Doucouré told Deadline in September, adding she hoped the haters would “understand that we’re actually on the same side of this battle” after watching the movie.
“I really put my heart into this film,” she said. “It’s actually my personal story as well as the story of many children who have to navigate between a liberal Western culture and a conservative culture at home.”
In a September column for the Los Angeles Times, culture critic Mary McNamara characterized “Cuties” as “an imperfect but insightful portrait of a girl beset by so many opposing forces” and noted it defied her expectations.
“What I found was a film about rage,” she wrote. “That sudden, inchoate, unidentifiable female fury that rises in so many girls, often self-destructively, when they realize that certain rules are not about protecting them but controlling them.
“‘Cuties’ is not about a girl coming to terms with her sexuality; sexuality doesn’t factor into any of her actions. It’s about a girl coming to terms with the nature of power and her immediate, and potentially lifelong, lack of it.”
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I've actually seen Maladolescenza. I wrote a paper on it for school. It is worse than Cuties. It's not just two girls, but two girls fighting over a boy. Including full nudity and sex scenes. The girls were 12 while the boy was 18. The french are sick fucks.
Fun fact, one of the girls, Eva Ionesco was exploited by her mother her whole life. At 5 her mother was selling erotic photos of her to galleries and magazines, including Playboy. Her mother finally lost custody when Eva was like 16. When she became an adult she tried to sue her mother to gain the rights for the photos of her because she desperately wanted them scrubbed from existence, they were so traumatizing. Wonder what stories will come out with these Cuties girls in a few years.
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lol it's about time the guillotine made a comeback in france.
At least this story shows that not all are crazy in Clown World.
Didn't that movie used to have a war in it?
Reminds me of that "edited for seniors" version of Gone With The Wind in The Simpsons.
Didn't that movie used to have a war in it?
I find it interesting that *society* or the media at least seems to view racism as worse than sex crimes.
That's why Dukes of Hazzard has been pulled but reruns of the Cosby Show still air.
It isn't a free speech or censorship issue, if adults want to talk about how raping kids is cool, then that's their business (though everyone else will call them nonces, and if they're actually confessing to a crime then they can expect law enforcement to intervene, but they do have a right to say it). The issue is with real child actors being exploited and sexualised. Then it's not just a depiction of abuse, it's an actual form of abuse.
Thirteen wasn't bad at all. The worst part was a five second scene when the teenage girl flashed a boy and you could only see her lower back as she lifted her shirt. I tried to watch Cuties so I could form my own opinion but I didn't get very far. It was too uncomfortable to watch. If you want to talk about fucked up pedo American movies, then bring up Pretty Baby. There was actual full on child nudity in that film.
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Fun fact: name a French cartoon made in the last 15 years that wasn't pandering to fetishes.
Classics get removed while some piece of pedo shit, that's the hill they'll die on.
But muh artistic merit. I haven't seen that but I did see Blue Lagoon. It is pretty fucked up how virtually every underage Brooke Shields movie was just an excuse to get her naked at some point. They were basically softcore child porn.
Iron Man Armoured Adventures?
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I think it would be interesting to see Eva Ionesco confronting Maïmouna Doucouré, but then there might be the chances it might be a nothingburger as well.
While there may be no legal punishment, I'm glad that it's on record that this film is softcore pedo porn. Honestly Netflix should have taken this down by their own volition when they had the chance. Now they have to keep Cuties up and be known as pedophile protectors, or risk being called corporately reckless by OR submissive to public censorship (which will turn their brand into carrion for their vulture competitors)
Blue Lagoon shows that the US can do it, too, but maybe all the people who could have knocked some sense into the filmmakers were so coked out they didn't care, it was 1980 afterall. At least they used a body double for the sex scene. Still, they used a body double for Molly Ringwald in The Breakfast Club for the up skirt shot and she says it creeps her out anyway, but that might be #metoo mental gymnastics.
Pretty Baby had a French director. Leon/The Professional had a French director, and if that film didn't sexualize Natalie Portman... It's really hard to think of any French films that don't sexualize children.
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Netflix really backed themselves into a corner taking so long with even responding to the entire issue, if they took it down early or even had a semblance of foresight and didn't put it on their platform they'd be massively better off. Now they have to choose a reason for people to potentially no longer support the company.
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I wonder if number one Molly Ringwald fan Connor Bible knows this?
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