Ten years after Harmony Korine gave us the downside of becoming “Spring Breakers,” a UK writer-director has given us the subtitled British version.

Writer-director Molly Manning Walker’s “How to Have Sex” follows three hedonistic teens on their quest for the perfect sex, sun and soaking-in-booze holiday, as they await their higher education fate in the form of final grades from high school.

It’s a rowdy, rambunctious bawdy girls abroad dramedy with a lot less edge and a lot more sentimentality than Korine’s corrosive take on that sort of cultural rite of passage.

Em (Enva Lewis) is tall, Black and gay, and obsessing over whether she “gets in” to a college that can take her somewhere in life. Skye (Lara Peake) is a smart young woman of experience, not sweating the college qualifying exams thing for the length of this planned bacchanale.

But “Sex” principally follows the shortest, Tara or “Taz” (Mia McKenna-Bruce), a Britneyish virgin who is most unsure of her future — even the losing-her-virginity business — as she struggles with social expectations, peer pressure and bad decisions that come right up to that line in the sand called “consent.”

When the girls go “Wooo-hoooo,” Taz “Woooo-hoos” the loudest. When the bottles open, she’s hitting them the hardest. And while all three are speaking of sex in score-keeping terms, Tara’s the most mission-oriented.

“I can’t die a virgin!”

When some “fit” lads from another part of the UK turn out to be in the “Romeo, Romeo” balcony suite next door, we and the girls — especially Taz — are allowed to think “How convenient.” Heck, one roomie in that next-door suite is a lesbian (Laura Ambler) who is A) just one of the lads and B) coincidentally convenient for our Em.

But it is Tara’s journey that this film focuses on, the attentions of the simple, tattooed and good-hearted “bro” Badger (Shaun Thomas) and his just as “fit” mate Paddy (Samuel Bottomly). Who will Tara choose? Will it be a wise choice? And just how certain can one be of a “choice” when someone is this young and there’s this much peer pressure and alcohol involved?

The subtlety and general lack of melodrama — save for the coincidences — is what’s winning in this film, which takes a few predictable turns before reaching a generally unsurprising conclusion. It’s well-acted, well-shot and edited in ways that play up the seeming spontaniety and improvisational skills of the cast.

Much of the movie is a series of montages, a whirl of insistent DJ’s egging on young people descending on Malia, Crete for binge drinking, promiscuity and “pressure” to just go along with the crowd. Historically, other films covered much the same ground, and “Spring Breakers” had a more stylized approach to this peer-pressure to cross lines “MTV’s Spring Break” value system.

The opposite-of-posh accents of one-and-all are so thick the U.S. version of “Sex” has subtitle. Memo to “Bob Marley” movie-makers. What were YOU thinking?

When “How to Have Sex” picked up “unexpected” BAFTA (British Oscar) nominations, one could easily guess that perhaps the acclaim attached to a fairly routine coming-of-age drama covering conventionally discomfiting ground was due to the filmmakers’ own story and how it ties into the serious messaging of the not wholly humorless movie.

But the players put this over, especially McKenna-Bruce (of the recent Netflix “Persuasion”), who captures the tough face girls reach for when covering for their vulnerability. One and all give us their take on the hedonism of youth, the limits of “best friends forever,” the way women eye another woman’s “man” and how guys live by similar rationalizations as they stab their mates in the back and treat women like carnival prizes to be acquired and discarded.

And writer-director Walker makes valid points about how youth culture is exploited and sexualized into a self-perpetuating monster where “the norm” is what’s been created to sell vacations, alcohol and “bad decisions” to generations, all in the name of an ever- bending and more fraught coming-of-age for generations of girls.

Rating:unrated, sex, teen binge drinking, smoking, profanity

Cast: Mia McKenna-Bruce, Enva Lewis, Shaun Thomas, Lara Peake, Laura Ambler and Samuel Bottomley

Credits: Scripted and directed by Molly Manning Walker. A Mubi release.

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