“In Spring Breakers, Harmony Korine bores into a contested, deeply American topic — the pursuit of happiness taken to nihilistic extremes — but turns his exploration into such a gonzo, outrageously funny party that it takes a while to appreciate that this is more of a horror film than a comedy.” – Manohla Dargis, The New York Times

Luridly beautiful and ecstatically ugly, Harmony Korine’s SPRING BREAKERS is a depth charge of raw, neon-lit ferocity, a bikini-clad descent into debauchery and violence whose dizzyingly shallow surfaces belie its uneasy depths. Weaponizing a cast of post-Disney Channel teen idols (Selena Gomez, Vanessa Hudgens, Ashley Benson, and Rachel Korine) as well as one decadently slumming star (James Franco, channeling Florida hip hop star Riff Raff), SPRING BREAKERS is a pop-art hand grenade whose blast radius we all still inhabit. The film follows a quartet of perpetually swimsuitted college students who take a licentious (and ill-fated) spring break trip to St. Petersburg, Florida, where they land in jail before getting sprung by unhinged rapper-cum-gangster Alien who takes them under his debaucherous criminal wing. An early hit for the now-juggernaut studio A24, SPRING BREAKERS remains a controversial cult classic worthy of (re-)consideration. Spring Break foreverrrrr.

This film is screening as part of Arkadin’s POOL PARTY series, featuring movies that allow you to beat the summer heat (vicariously) by taking a dip in the cool waters of a swimming pool, even as mystery, murder and heartbreak lurk on the horizon…

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