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Cuties Director Rubbishes That Film Hypers*xualises Young Girls: “It’s Bold, It’s Feminist..” (Photo Credit – IMDB )

Netflix’s new French indie film Cuties stood at the receiving end of a massive backlash as people accused it of hypers*xualising children (specifically, prepubescent girls). Talking about the controversy now is the director of the film Maïmouna Doucoure. She feels that the accusations are false and her movie is a social commentary and reality.

Directed by Doucoure, the film is about a girl who leaves her family to fit in a group of dancers. Her journey in fitting herself in this new mould makes the plot of the film. It was the highly s*xual portrayal of little girls that has triggered the conversation.

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Maïmouna Doucoure was present at the Toronto International Film Festival panel, where she defended Cuties. “It’s because I saw so many things and so many issues around me lived by young girls, that I decided to make this film and sound an alarm and say, ‘We need to protect our children,” said Maïmouna Doucoure, as per The Hollywood Reporter.