Spring Breakers

  • 92'
  • USA
  • 2012
The most mainstream film of perennial enfant terrible Harmony Korine (Gummo, 1997; Mister Lonely, 2007) is the most extreme for his protagonists: certainly for fresh Disney stars Selena Gomez and Vanessa Hudgens and to some extent also for James Franco, who plays a violent drug dealer, but then hilariously over the top, as he takes the still-naive bikini girls in Florida under his wing.
With virtuosity, Korine films the gradual derailing of their pursuit of sex, alcohol and drugs, which forms the hollow core of the American 'spring break' tradition, in glossy, sexy, always undulating images (supported by Skrillex's dubstep soundtrack). The only similarity with his previous feature, Trash Humpers (2009), shot on scratchy VHS tapes, is that the form again seamlessly matches the content. At the Venice festival, Korine called this a ‘liquid narrative’. ‘It's meant to be about surfaces. The culture is about surfaces.'



  • 92'
  • USA
  • 2012
Director
Harmony Korine
Country of production
USA
Year
2012
Festival Edition
IFFR 2013
Length
92'
Medium
DCP
Language
English
Producers
Chris Hanley, Jordan Gertner, Charles-Marie Anthonioz, David Zander
Production Companies
Muse Films, Radar Pictures, O'Salvation Cine Ltd., Iconoclast
Sales
Kinology
Screenplay
Harmony Korine
Cast
James Franco, Selena Gomez
Local Distributor
Independent Films Nederland
Director
Harmony Korine
Country of production
USA
Year
2012
Festival Edition
IFFR 2013
Length
92'
Medium
DCP
Language
English
Producers
Chris Hanley, Jordan Gertner, Charles-Marie Anthonioz, David Zander
Production Companies
Muse Films, Radar Pictures, O'Salvation Cine Ltd., Iconoclast
Sales
Kinology
Screenplay
Harmony Korine
Cast
James Franco, Selena Gomez
Local Distributor
Independent Films Nederland