{"id":7893,"date":"2020-08-21T07:48:16","date_gmt":"2020-08-21T07:48:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/?p=7893"},"modified":"2020-08-21T07:48:17","modified_gmt":"2020-08-21T07:48:17","slug":"netflix-issues-apology-for-misrepresenting-french-film-cuties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/2020\/08\/21\/netflix-issues-apology-for-misrepresenting-french-film-cuties\/","title":{"rendered":"Netflix issues apology for misrepresenting French film &#8216;Cuties&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Netflix issued an apology on Thursday, August 20, 2020, after users signed a petition to remove&nbsp;the controversial French film &#8216;Cuties&#8217; from their platform. The movie is about a 11-year-old girl who leaves her family to join a &#8216;free-spirited dance group&#8217;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8216;Cuties&#8217; is accused in the online campaign of sexualizing young girls &#8216;for the viewing pleasure of pedophiles&#8217;. It was originally titled &#8216;Mignonnes&#8217; and the director of the movie won a best director award at the Sundance Film Festival, which is where &#8216;Cuties&#8217; premiered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Social media had called out Netflix for the poster of the film. It featured four preteen stars posing in costumes baring their legs and midriffs. The users called it &#8216;disgusting&#8217;, &#8216;sick&#8217; and &#8216;upsetting&#8217;. Netflix soon apologized for the mistake and corrected it. They however, are releasing the film on September 9, 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure><iframe width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><\/iframe><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Netflix tweeted, &#8220;We&#8217;re deeply sorry for the inappropriate artwork that we used for Mignonnes\/Cuties. It was not OK, nor was it representative of this French film which won an award at Sundance. We\u2019ve now updated the pictures and description.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Here&#8217;s their tweet:<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We&#39;re deeply sorry for the inappropriate artwork that we used for Mignonnes\/Cuties. It was not OK, nor was it representative of this French film which won an award at Sundance. We\u2019ve now updated the pictures and description.<\/p>&mdash; Netflix (@netflix) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/netflix\/status\/1296486375211053057?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 20, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8216;Cuties&#8217; is described as a film about a 11-year-old rebel gril who joins a free-spirited dance group and starts exploring her feminity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Netflix issued an apology on Thursday, August 20, 2020, after users signed a petition to remove&nbsp;the controversial French film &#8216;Cuties&#8217; from their platform. The movie is&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7894,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7893","post","has-post-thumbnail","category-latest-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7893\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}