New York The Netflix streaming platform is facing a wave of criticism and calls for a boycott in the US for including the French comedy Mignonnes (Cats) in its selection on Wednesday. Hashtag #CancelNetflix was shared on Twitter by over 200,000 people, the AFP agency writes on Friday. Some Republican Party politicians also joined the call.
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‘You make children sexual objects!’ Netflix came under fire for a movie poster |
According to critics, the French comedy sexualizes the bodies of the main characters, who are, in film and in reality, minors. According to them, he commits pornography. Hashtag #CancelNetflix, used by critics of the image, shared over 200,000 profiles on Twitter, making it one of the most used on this social network. Several Republican Party local politicians joined the call for a boycott.
The online platform rejects criticism. “Mignonnes is a story with a social overlap against the sexualization of children and adolescents,” said one of the platform’s spokespersons. Netflix faced similar objections in August, when it published the film’s launch poster. The platform eventually downloaded.
For example, actress Tessa Thompson, known from Creed and Avengers: Endgame, defended the film and described it as “beautiful”. “He allowed a new voice to appear,” she wrote of the film.
The French comedy Mignonnes (Cats) tells the story of an 11-year-old girl Amy, who lives in a northern suburb of Paris in a not very functioning family. Amy and her friends move between the strict rules of their family environment and the pressure to expose their bodies to which they are exposed on social networks. The film, which is the feature debut of French-Senegalese director Maïmoun Doucouré, was awarded at this year’s Sundance American Independent Film Festival.
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