Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #90. Cuties – Maïmouna Doucouré

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Cuties

Winner of the Global Filmmaking Award at the Sundance Film Festival in 2017 for the screenplay of her first feature Cuties (Mignonnes), Maïmouna Doucouré reteamed with producer Bien ou Bien Productions Sylvain De Zangroniz for a debut that pit non-professionals with actress Maïmouna Gueye (of Rachid Bouchareb’s Belleville Cop, 2018). Doucouré won both a César, a Grand Jury Prize at Sundance and Best International Short at TIFF for her 2015 short film, Maman(s). Doucoure’s cast includes Fathia Youssouf, Medina El Aidi-Azouni, Esther Gohourou, Ilanah Cami-Goursolas, Myriam Hamma and Maimouna Gueye. Netflix landed the title.

MUBI World Cinema

Gist: Co-written by Alice Winocour, Nathalie Saugeon and Valentine Milville, pre-teenager Amy discovers in her new elementary school a group of dancers called “Cuties”. Fascinated, she begins a sexy dance, the twerk, hoping to join their band and escape a family upheaval.

Release Date/Prediction: Cuties has been selected to compete at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival in the World Cinema Dramatic competition. It was then selected for the Generation Kplus section at the Berlin.

Nicholas Bell
Nicholas Bell
Los Angeles based Nicholas Bell is IONCINEMA.com's Chief Film Critic and covers film festivals such as Sundance, Berlin, Cannes and TIFF. He is part of the critic groups on Rotten Tomatoes, The Los Angeles Film Critics Association (LAFCA), FIPRESCI, the Online Film Critics Society (OFCS) and GALECA. His top 3 for 2023: The Beast (Bonello) Poor Things (Lanthimos), Master Gardener (Schrader). He was a jury member at the 2019 Cleveland International Film Festival.

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