Trivia / Cuties

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• Banned in China: The film was banned in Turkey the same day the film was premiered on Netflix, despite Netflix having dubbed the film in Turkish.
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  • A Google search for the movie lists it with an NC-17 rating in its information panel, however the movie was never rated by the Motion Picture Association (MPA) since it was initially released exclusively in France. Even when it was released to the US, Netflix just slapped it with a TV-MA label, proving the MPA had no involvement.
  • There are people and news outlets online who claim this film was made by (or for) Netflix. While it is branded as a "Netflix Original" film, that's only because the streaming service acquired the distribution rights for it (something which series' such as The Good Place also have attached despite being made by NBC) — Netflix had nothing to do with this films' production, let-alone had any influence the films' themes or plot, despite what people tried to suggest. What Netflix did do however, was misrepresent the film via advertising, which lead to this sentiment and subsequent controversy.
• No Dub for You: The film only was dubbed into Western languages, outside its native French: English, Spanish (Latin American and European), German, Italian, Brazilian Portuguese, Polish (voice-over translation only), and Turkish (although it was never released due to the film being banned in the country). Possibly due to the controversy behind the film, it wasn't dubbed into any Asian language, even those from countries which traditionally had more tolerance to the controversial aspects of it, such as those from the Sinosphere (China, Taiwan, Japan, Thailand and South Korea).
• Similarly Named Works: There is a Canadian slasher film also called Cuties, which was also released in 2020, about a killer who targets a group of LGBT youths. The director of that film had to clear up and state that the film had no relation with the Netflix film.
• Write What You Know: The film is about a child of Muslim Senegalese immigrant parents who grew up in France, like director and co-writer Maïmouna Doucouré herself, and the culture clashes that ensue from that upbringing in modern French society. It was already the subject of her 2015 Short Film Maman(s), with polygamy as main focus instead of religious taboos (though the former is present in Cuties).

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