Spring Breakers (2012)

Harmony Korine, the former enfant terrible who divided audiences with the purposely shocking portrayal of New York’s teen skater culture in his screenplay Kids and his visually off-putting directorial debut Gummo, has returned with his first full-length feature film since 2009. Spring Breakers, which features a bevy of bikini-clad Disney Channel ingénues trying to lose their luster, proves that, in his middle age, the writer/director still enjoys riding the line between affected realism and a Diane Arbus-type endearing exploitation. The only difference is that this time Spring Breakers offers some genuinely funny and touching moments, and the cast, led by a bedazzling James Franco, is in on the joke. 

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