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Love the candids 
This guy says Selena's performance was 'bloody awesome' she does leave and goes back home earlier than the girls but it's normal cause she comes back later. |
YES! Praise the lord. 
I was afraid she'd leave and I'd be forced to watch the remainding of the movie. 
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Selena looking fine as always 
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I'm happy with the reviews so far. Now I need TIFF reviews 
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Selena and the cast at the press conference.
Harmony offered Selena Ashley's role (Brit) but she refused and went for Faith instead.
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Selena and the cast at the press conference.
Harmony offered Selena Ashley's role (Brit) but she refused and went for Faith instead.
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I'm not surprised she went for Faith, I bet she wasn't feeling the scene of the threesome and all that. LOL
What I'm pissed about is that she is not in the scene everyone is talking about, the Britney song scene.
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LYLALS is #20(+3) in France this week, SHE GOT THE TOP 20 OMG !!!!!!!!!!!!
WTSGD is #92(+11) ! 
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LYLALS is #20(+3) in France this week, SHE GOT THE TOP 20 OMG !!!!!!!!!!!!
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I haven’t seen a longer queue for a Venice press screening this year than the one for Harmony Korine’s Spring Breakers, which premieres today in Competition. It makes sense—the film carried with it the promise of wild excitement, some young American stars who attract a lot of attention (Vanessa Hudgens, Selena Gomez, Ashley Benson) plus James Franco, who knows a thing or two about attracting attention as well. The sort of loud mainstream baggage the film brought to the Lido was somewhat awkwardly paired with the long-lasting cinephile appeal Korine has garnered with his cultish body of work (Gummo screened here in Venice in 1997, and he has been throwing audiences off balance ever since).
And Spring Breakers certainly did not disappoint, positioning itself in a fascinating dead zone of expectations. Those who came to see the aforementioned young stars partying and making a mess of their college spring break found exactly that—only cranked up to eleven, speeding past darkness to reach a kind of deranged grotesque. On the other hand, those who came for Korine found the director’s trademark themes bathed in glittering softness, apparently downplayed even in the undeniable aesthetic of excess on display here.
Similarly to this year’s intriguing Project X, the beginning of Spring Breakers seems to tap into a form of "alienated awareness," as it confronts the viewer’s gaze with a spirit of defiance. Opening with a prolonged montage of a beach party—naked bodies, hip-hop, alcohol, etc.—Korine knows that context is everything: he takes his time before getting to the story itself, letting a couple of other introductory sequences accumulate to establish a mood and philosophy. This has always been his main asset, after all; he loves spaces, locations that need to be filled, the feeling of emptiness, the collective void.
With its repetition and estrangement, this sharp collage makes it clear that our four girls hate their college life and are staking everything on the upcoming spring break, hoping to somehow alter their entire existence. The problem, though, is money—they don’t have enough to properly enjoy their trip to Florida. Their solution is, of cours,e an armed robbery (a gem of a tracking shot from the outside of a diner, with the action only intermittently visible through the windows), and the fact that this still seems like reasonable thinking on their part says a lot about what comes later in the movie.
Once the girls get to St. Petersburg, it’s suddenly the James Franco show: he plays a gangsta-hustler-dj with golden teeth, tattoos and dreadlocks, too conceptual and on-the-nose to work in any self-respecting movie. Here, though, it’s all part of the meta-grinding fun. And at moments it actually achieves a higher poignancy, transcending this character's joke of an exterior and finding something truly unsettling about him: as in a piano rendition of a Britney Spears ballad framing a slow-mo montage of drug rips, or a painstakingly long enunciation of things he possesses, from guns to perfume, as the ultimate reclamation of individual identity. Listen to him shouting Look at mah ****! and for a moment you’ll spring free from the alienating cage of this film.
This is a director who’s always been great at using ugliness (urban or personal) as a vehicle for meaning. With Spring Breakers he seems to have updated that notion to include the worst degradation of low-brow residue in contemporary American culture. Everything is pink, red, and glossy; Britney Spears is evoked nostalgically and ironically as a lost icon. Teen starlets are used as bait. Gangsta culture is a cartoonish reminiscence. It’s a bit like a farcical distortion of Drive, if that film's references were from ten minutes ago. And yet, for all its uneven pacing and debatable cunningness, Soring Breakers is an energetic and formally daring effort.
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She looks amazing.
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Selena: Coming from Disney Channel puts a label on you, I know I have young fans and this is an opportunity to grow up.
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Apparently they diffused a report on Selena in the television news (she was #22 on iTunes, she is #17 now) !
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Full review here there's A LOT of spoilers.
VENICE – Even by the elastic measure of James Franco’s unpredictable career, the actor gives one of his more bizarre performances in Harmony Korine’s Spring Breakers. Playing a Florida white-trash gangsta with beaded cornrows and a gleaming mouthful of metal, he’s a cross between Bo Derek in 10 and Richard Kiel in Moonraker. At one point he sits poolside at a cheesy white grand piano and sings a Britney Spears ballad while three co-eds in DTF pants and pink ski masks do an impromptu dance routine with AK-47s.
Venice 2012: Risqué 'Spring Breakers,' Historical 'The Lines of Wellington' Top Tuesday's Highlights
Sounds good? Well, like the film as a whole, Franco’s borderline parodistic performance is interesting only up to a point. It may be one of Korine’s more conventional narratives, but this is basically a ****-pulp snort of derision at the American Dream and the youthful search for self, packaged as Beach Blanket Bingo on acid. It has hypnotic visual style and a dense, driving soundscape. But it’s also too monotonous and thematically empty to be seriously provocative.
More than by Franco, the film’s profile will be boosted by the presence of former Disney Channel cuties Selena Gomez and Vanessa Hudgens among all the bong-hitting, boozing, coke-snorting, breast-baring, grinding bodies. “Poetry in motion” is how Franco’s drug-dealing rapper Alien describes the crowd at a beach beer blast. “Bikinis and big booties, y’all. That’s what life is about.”
Gomez plays the pointedly named Faith, a Christian youth group member who has somehow remained close to three reprobate skanks she has known since kindergarten, Candy (Hudgens), Brit (Ashley Benson) and Cotty (Rachel Korine, the writer-director’s wife). Cotty has pink highlights and a sullen streak, while interchangeable Candy and Brit are defined only by their ****ty blondeness.
The setting and aspects of the aesthetic will attract comparison to this summer’s Magic Mike. But while Korine douses the air with dreamy melancholia, Steven Soderbergh’s film came by its underlying sense of emptiness and restless longing far more naturally. That said, Spring Breakers seems bound to acquire at least minor cult status.
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Reaction to the movie in Venice has been mixed.
Korine is described as an "enfant terrible" of American film making who is best known for writing controversial sex movie "Kids" and directing the experimental "Julien Donkey-Boy".
Some critics found Spring Breakers implausible and pretentious, while others described it as "wild" and "compelling" and a breath of fresh air at a film festival dominated by more serious, somber cinema.
Robbie Collin of the Daily Telegraph argued that Korine did not go far enough.
"Beneath its Terry Richardson-esque **** chic surface, Spring Breakers is no racier than a mainstream Hollywood teen comedy, and Korine doesn't seem to know what to do with his film's incredibly timely, potentially dangerous premise," he wrote in a three-star review.
In the film, the four friends join hundreds of others whose sole aim is to get drunk, stoned and naked.
Korine said he was aiming to capture the spirit of young people today who are often misunderstood.
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Love the candids
This guy says Selena's performance was 'bloody awesome' she does leave and goes back home earlier than the girls but it's normal cause she comes back later. |
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That first pic
HER FACE asdsanddasda. She looks so amazed it's so cute
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LYLALS is #20(+3) in France this week, SHE GOT THE TOP 20 OMG !!!!!!!!!!!!
WTSGD is #92(+11) ! |
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omg she looks great. I love the print + colour. (if it was a bit shorter, I'd love it even more ) but she looks great. Vanessa looks cute too.
Ashley... 
RACHEL 
So much news today, I can't take it
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James
Look @ selena putting her titties all over him. get it gorl 
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