Directed by :
David Hamilton (Une été à Saint-Tropez -1984, Premiers désirs - 1983)

Cast :
Thierry Tevini, Anja Schüte, Valérie Dumas, Évelyne Dandry, Elisa Servier, Jean-Yves Chatelais, Macha Méril, Hannes Kaetner, Silke Rein, Laure Dechasnel, Pierre Vernier, Jean Rougerie, Catherine Rouvel, Gaëlle Legrand, Anne Fontaine

Production :
Stéphan Films (FR); Filmédis (FR)

Technical specifications :
92 minutes - Language: French - Colour: Colour

Synopsis :
Teenagers in a French farmhouse in 1939. An adult-oriented comedy which follows the exploits of two cousins coming of age in the beautiful French countryside. A young boy and girl fall in love as they compare the differences between the raunchy, open sexuality of the servants with that of the refined, repressed deviance of their respective families. With war eminent, the love between the two teens as well as the bonding of the two families grows more intense.

Director’s comments :
A distinction must be made between eroticism and pornography; the media have blurred the disparity to an unforgivable degree. For those intelligent enough to recognize the difference, erotica will continue to hold a unique fascination. Social evils should not be confused with the pursuit of true beauty. (David Hamilton)

Comments :
David Hamilton is above all an aesthete and a visual poet. Convinced that photography was at his best around the turn of the century, his aim is not to create anything "new" or "modern". According to him photography emerged out of painting and he deliberately wants to remain in this field. […] He is not a journalist nor a commercial photographer; he is an artist, filling the empty canvas with the subjective vision of reality. Out of the visual chaos he selects what affects him the most: purity, freshness, harmony, simplicity, innocence, all things untouched. Whether he is photographing young girls, landscapes, seascapes, still lifes, or architecture, he gives them all this dreamlike quality. […] He approaches the subject with full attention, grasps it, moulds it until it becomes his own, a timeless vision. (Gertrude Hamilton)