Netflix apologizes for inappropriate movie poster after outrage, petition

Cuties, on the start titled Mignonnes, is a French teen coming-of-age comedy drama movie written and directed by Maïmouna Doucouré about a exceptional Senegalese Muslim girl who is caught between exceptional family values and the dash equipped by dance and the rising Internet culture. The movie turned into premiered on the 2020 Sundance Movie Festival and points Fathia Youssouf, Médina El Aidi-Azouni and Maïmouna Gueye in lead roles.

“We’re deeply sorry for the spoiled art work that we passe for Mignonnes/Cuties. It turned into now not OK, nor turned into it representative of this French movie which received an award at Sundance. We’ve now up thus some distance the photos and outline,” Netflix tweeted on Thursday.

The movie that follows an 11-300 and sixty five days archaic girl joining a dance crew, debuted with a poster that displayed its title alongside with suggestive dance sequences which brought about powerful outrage on-line. A petition claiming it “sexualizes an 11-300 and sixty five days-archaic for the viewing pleasure of pedophiles” attracted 25,000 signatures in lower than 24 hours, essentially essentially based completely on a BBC document.

“It sickens me that Netflix is the employ of its global platform to circumvent child pornography legal pointers by airing Cuties, a movie about an 11-300 and sixty five days archaic girl twerking her technique to stardom. Pubescent girls dancing sensually can most attention-grabbing lead to paedophilia and Netflix desires to be strongly censured,” a individual tweeted.

The Cuties debate is the most recent controversy Netflix has courted after accusations of perpetuating stereotypes of colourism, casteism and sexism by its powerful-debated level to Indian Matchmaking remaining month. Its erotic Polish drama 365 Days turned into moreover criticised for glamourizing rape, sex trafficking and kidnapping.