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I'm Bridget Todd, and this is There Are No Girls on the Internet.

Hey y'all, Bridget here. I wanted to do a quick supplementary episode about the Netflix movie Cuties.

First of all, I was a little bit nervous to even talk about this film. It's such a big controversy right now, but I kind of felt like I had to.

So just to get this out of the way, cuties is a movie that is very much in line with my interests. I love French cinema, specifically French

Senegalese cinema. I live for a coming of age story, especially a story about a girl

navigating her way through a rocky girlhood. Movies like Fish Tank or 13, love them. Also, I grew up

dancing. I grew up in doing competitive dance, being in dance troops that were sometimes a little

bit questionable.

So it does seem like a movie that is tailor-made for my interest.

This is not meant to be a movie review.

I'm just trying to give you the broad strokes of the controversy and the criticism

and what's happening.

However, there will be some spoilers.

And so if you don't want this movie spoiled for you,

I definitely recommend you check it out before listening to this episode. I will try to warn you

before the spoilers. So what is Quties? Cudies is a French film by first time director

Mimono du Cere. It tells the coming of age story of Amy, a Muslim synagullies 11-year-old living in France.

It premiered at Sundance this winter to rave reviews before being acquired by Netflix.

I was actually at Sundance and tried to see it, but unfortunately it was sold out.

So the broad strokes plot of the film Cuties is that Amy, this 11-year-old, she kind of balances

these two worlds. The one world is her

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