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Who should show up but a rapping drug and arms dealer (Franco), who bails out the girls, and coaxes them to kill his nemesis named Arch (natch). To bring you up to speed, the story penned by KorineВ follows four college-aged girls who decide to rob a fast food restaurant in order to pay for their annual getaway, but get tossed in jail as a result. We're still not sure what to expect, but until we find out, here are more cheescake pics of the cast. And the movie even had a ginormous billboard up at Cannes, the kind usually reserved for blockbusters. But then again, one can never discount Korine's prankster spirit, so who knows if this is just a bigger budget ' Trash Humpers.' Either way, everyone involved has been more than eager to show off what they've been up to, with a seemingly endless supply of stills and set picsВ making their way online. It is an entirely paganВ entertainment.So what exactly is Harmony Korine's ' Spring Breakers' going to be? With a star-driven and somewhat random cast including James Franco, Selena Gomez, Vanessa Hudgens, Ashley Benson and more, it seems like the wildly singular director is aiming for the mainstream. I suspect the idea never occurred to Harmony Korine for a moment.

#PICTURES FROM THE MOVIE SPRING BREAKERS LICENSE#

Given Faith's background, I wondered if there would be some reference, ironic or otherwise, to Good Friday or Easter Sunday вЂ“ the events that license the holiday. Much is made of her attendance in Christian prayer groups, which sometimes convene in front of a huge stained-glass window. Where, precisely, he isВ strutting to isВ another question.ДЄs for Faith, the good girl, her role is unexpected. There is an undeniable directorial strut in Spring Breakers. The colossal party scenes вЂ“ in the pool, on the beach, in the hotel room, on the balcony вЂ“ are coolly choreographed in montage, and the more desolate 'reportage' shots outside all-night convenience stores look good. It is a world away from his (interesting) experimental piece Trash Humpers, and also, thankfully, from his excruciatingly annoying drama Mister Lonely. He leches over the women, but he is also on their side.

Korine is giving us aВ preselected, pre-auditioned representation of youth and beauty.ДЇor all its absurdity and voyeurism, Korine brings to it a real authorial style. Alien is always gasping at how pretty his foursome are: giggling, they pose for the imaginary photo he frames with his fingers вЂ“ and yet all the women and indeed men on camera are pretty. Like that other spring-break classic, Piranha 3D, Spring Breakers is naturally an excuse to show lots of semi-naked women and men вЂ“ but mostly women вЂ“ with in-your-face/in-their-swimsuit-area shots. All too clearly, Korine is ventriloquising himself with this character. Alien conceives a kind of passion for these women, like a non-pimp pimp who doesn't intend them toВ have sex with anyone but him. He is played with tattoos, metal teeth and cornrows by Franco. Taking Faith with them, they head for party central in the Sunshine State, falling there under the dangerous spell of the drug dealer, rapper and automatic-weapons-enthusiast Alien. Our heroines are desperate to go on spring break, but have no money вЂ“ so with daring, masks and a fake gun, they knock over a fast-food restaurant and gloatingly exult in their cash ('It makes my tits look bigger!'). From their kindergarten days, they are friendly with Faith (Selena Gomez), a modest Christian girl. These badass girls are Brit (Ashley Benson), Candy (Vanessa Hudgens) and Cotty, played by the director's wife, Rachel Korine. The plot concerns college students who are bored with their course and their lives: they zone out and pass rude notes to each other during lectures on African-American experiences in the postwar US this academic subject is a deadpan touch of insolence on Korine's part, considering the overtly racial aspect of what is finally to happen. Korine became notorious with the script he wrote for Larry Clark's Kids in the 1990s and now, at 40, he has achieved вЂ¦ well, not maturity exactly, but a kind of seniority, bordering on the maestro-perviness of the great Clark himself. After a while, you have to wonder where the heck they are keeping their hotel-room keys, cash and phones etc. He creates four lissome heroines who appear in their bikinis pretty much all the time. Henry Barnes, Peter Bradshaw and Catherine Shoard review Spring Breakers .uk

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