Spring Breakers Sexist? Director Says 'Great'

The director of the controversial Spring Breakers has welcomed any notion that the film is sexist, saying that reaction is "great".

In an interview with our resident film critic Anthony Carew, Harmony Korine said he didn't need to defend the provocative movie as it does that for itself.

“All reactions are perfect. I don't ever make a film that's ever meant to be one way. I can feel one thing, you can feel another thing that's exactly the opposite. Who's to say what's right? The movies are made in a way that invites that, that promotes that discourse, that reaction. I try to make films that exist in that way, that there is no right or wrong way to react or interpret them. I just hope you're moved by them, you're entertained. I'm just trying to make things beautiful. I don't really defend the films. I don't really spend any time doing that. I make the work until I feel like it's perfect in the way that it exists, and then I put it out there. I don't need to defend the film, it defends itself.”

Korine is the man behind other bold, abstract flicks like Trash Humpers and Julien Donkey-Boy, but he laughed off suggestions he's something of a provocateur.

“I don't think of myself as a provocateur, because I don't even think of myself! I live in places where I'm not forced to think of myself in that way. I follow the light. There's something that's more purpose-driven that I follow. I don't spend any time thinking of myself that way, or any way, really.”

Carew has given his take on the flick, which sees a "gangsta" James Franco drop lines such as “look at my shiiiit” and “why you actin' 'spicious?” while a bunch of former Disney stars shed their clean-girl image at the American rite of passage that is Spring Break.

The movie hits theatres Thursday 9 May.