The Marks Family Cycle

Eighteen-year-old malcontent Peter Marks, chafing against his middle-class comfort in 1960s Toronto, knocks up his girlfriend Julie. His criminal tendencies prove too much for her, and the first film ends with the couple poised to go their separate ways. In the second film, we learn that Peter and Julie did marry and settle down into adulthood, then divorced. Now they cope with the rebelliousness of their own 17-year-old daughter Isabelle and attempt to reconcile their faded ideals with their lives as suburban parents. The first film, Nobody Waved Good-bye, was heavily improvised to the point that it won a BAFTA Award for documentary in 1965. In keeping with that documentary conceit, the sequel was filmed twenty years on.