For decades, US university students have used their mid-semester spring break as an opportunity to head south and indulge in a week of beachside party debauchery. Harmony Korine is a director very familiar with youthful rebellion, and this neon, white-trash epic follows four girls who rob a restaurant in order to fund their spring break trip to Florida. Once there, they hook up with a rapper and gangster named Alien (James Franco). Korine has said he was trying to make a film with a liquid narrative, similar to the looping effects of dance music, and Spring Breakers delivers.

Korine has always excelled in co-creating unforgettably strange characters, and here he moves beyond his beloved Midwestern oddballs to document the more colourful brand of weirdness found in Florida. Spring Breakers features James Franco as the cornrowed and gold front toothed crazy-white-boy Alien (inspired by RiffRaff and St. Petersburg local Dangeruss), the larger than life Gucci Mane appears in a small role, and we also meet the truly unbelievable the "ATL Twins": identical twins from Atlanta who sleep in the same bed and always date the same woman. Ten years on, Korine's woozy blend of truth and fiction has something to say about hedonistic American youth culture, but it's a little hard to make out the words over the music.