Maimouna Doucouré is speaking out following the massive backlash her movie, Cuties, is getting.
The movie centers on an 11-year-old Senegalese girl in Paris who joins a dance group to escape family dysfunction. The backlash started after Netflix debuted its key art and a first look at the movie, pointing out the suggestive choreography in the dance group. “The controversy started with that artwork… The most important [thing] is to watch the film and understand we have the same fight,” Maimouna shared during a virtual panel discussing the movie.
She added that she “thought the film would be accepted” despite the differences between European and American cultures. “It played to Sundance and was watched by American people there; I met the
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