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Film

This is what cinema is for: Netflix’s Cuties reviewed

19 September 2020

9:00 AM

19 September 2020

9:00 AM

Cuties

Netflix

Cuties is the subject of a moral panic and a hashtag #CancelNetflix. It tells the story of Amy (Fathia Youssouf), an 11-year-old Franco-Senegalese girl living in Paris, who learns that her father is taking a second wife. (Polygamy is widespread in west Africa, but you wouldn’t know it from mainstream cinema.

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