Directed by David Hamilton • 1983 • France

David Hamilton is principally known as a photographer, primarily for his soft-focus work on young women, but he has done five feature films -- PREMIERS DESIRS (1984) is his latest, to date, and proves once again that Hamilton knows how to photograph nubile young women in situations that are, at once, innocent and provocative. As with most of his other work, PREMIERS DESIRS is a coming-of-age drama about a group of teenage girls who leave their private school on an idyllic resort island, lose their boat, and embark on a series of romantic/erotic adventures.