“Mignonnes” will land on the popular platform on September 9, but its arrival has been surrounded by a notable controversy on social networks.
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Netflix apologized for the controversial advertising poster for “Mignonnes”, which showed a sexualized image of the girls who star in this film.
“We deeply regret the inappropriate graphic material that we use for ‘Mignonnes’,” he said this Friday 21-A to the platform on Twitter.
“It was not good and it was not representative of this French film that won an award at Sundance. We have updated the photographs and the description (of the film),” added the digital giant.
“Mignonnes” (translated as “Cuties” for the United States and as “Guapis” for Spain) is a French film directed by the director Maïmouna Doucouré that revolves around an eleven-year-old girl of Senegalese origin (the same ancestry as Doucouré ) who challenges her family’s conservative values when she joins a dance group.
This film participated in the Berlinale and Sundance, the mecca of independent cinema in the US and where it won the award for the best direction of an international dramatic film.
“Mignonnes” will land on Netflix on September 9, but its arrival has been surrounded by a notable controversy on social networks for a promotional poster in which a sexualized image of the leading girls appears in the middle of a choreography.
This poster is in stark contrast to the artwork used at the film’s premiere in France, where the girls appear very smiling, with shopping bags in hand and walking down a street.
On the other hand, a petition on change.org, with more than 133,000 signatures so far, has demanded the removal of “Mignonnes” from Netflix.
“This movie is disgusting as it sexualizes an ELEVEN year old girl for the enjoyment of pedophiles and also negatively influences our children! There is no need for this type of content at that age, especially when it comes to sex trafficking and pedophilia are so out of control! There’s no excuse. This is dangerous content! “the claim reads.
This petition echoed Netflix’s first retired description of this film: “Eleven-year-old Amy is fascinated by a ‘twerking’ dance group. Hoping to join them, she begins to explore her femininity challenging the traditions of her family. “
The new synopsis collected on the platform reads: “Eleven-year-old Amy begins to rebel against her family’s conservative traditions when she becomes fascinated with a free-spirited dance group.”
Regardless of the fact that the first synopsis could mislead the signatories of the petition, their complaint goes in the opposite direction to the opinion of the specialized press, which, in a majority, welcomed the proposal of “Mignonnes” and the sensitive treatment it makes This tape of the passage from childhood to adolescence.
Thus, in the Rotten Tomatoes review aggregator this film accumulates 82% of positive reviews.
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