Spring Breakers

Harmony Korine's Spring Breakers (US, 2012) - A day-glo, hip-hop drug rush of a film centring on a group of four high-school girlfriends who go on a hedonistic sex-n-substance-abuse ‘spring break’ in a Florida resort, Harmony Korine’s remarkable fifth feature is like nothing the US maverick has ever done – or anyone else, come to that. Greeted with rousing cheers at its Venice press premiere, the film will nevertheless irritate those who fail to see the rather innocent fairy-tale and dream of teen freedom glimmering beneath Korine’s apparent glorification of a world devoid of values and obsessed with misogynistic sex, binge-drinking, guns, empty fame and money. 2012TOR, 2012VENic, 2013ROTsp. RATING: 5