Cuties (2020)
Directed by Maïmouna Doucouré
Amy, an 11-year-old girl, joins a group of dancers named “the cuties” at school, and rapidly grows aware of her burgeoning femininity—upsetting her mother and her values in the process.
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While Catherine Hardwicke’s “Thirteen” comes to mind, Doucouré eschews a gritty aesthetic in favor of a subtly surreal one for the story of the young Amy, who has recently resettled in a new flat with her mother Mariam and two younger siblings, waiting for their father to join them.
Catherine Hardwicke’s Thirteen may be an even closer comparison, when you consider its discomfiting level of too-much-too-soon-ness.
We have seen it happen with films like Larry Clark’s Kids in 1995 or Catherine Hardwicke’s Thirteen in 2003.
It earned Brooke the leading role, as child prostitute Violet, in 1978’s Pretty Baby.
It’s like 2002’s “Irréversible” or 1986’s “Henry: Portrait of A Serial Killer” – they are intended to induce shock and revulsion.