Opinion

I directed ‘Cuties.’ This is what you need to know about modern girlhood.

Maïmouna Doucouré is a director and writer.

I was at a community event in Paris a few years ago when a group of young girls came on the stage dressed and dancing in a very risque way. They were only 11 years old, and their performance was shocking. Curious to understand what was happening on that platform, I spent the next year and a half interviewing more than a hundred 10- and 11-year-old girls across the city.