Cinema
Nobody Waved Good-bye
Don Owen · 1964
Synopsis
A well-off Toronto suburb, in the sixties. Peter, eighteen, skips classes, argues with his parents and rejects the comfortable life they are preparing for him. Arrested at the wheel of his father's car, he has to see a probation officer every week. He leaves home, rents a room and finds a job as a parking attendant, where his boss teaches him how to cheat on change. He urges his girlfriend Julie to find work, so that they can leave together later.
Context
The commission, funded with thirty-five thousand dollars, concerned probation officers; the producer Tom Daly, the only one informed, quietly raised the budget to seventy-five thousand. About sixty thousand feet of film were shot, some scenes up to twenty times, and the car park sequence was filmed with a hidden camera, with real customers. Members of Parliament asked in the House why the Board was producing fiction. Julie Biggs plays Julie.
Who it is for
Eighty minutes in black and white, shot on sixteen-millimetre film and largely improvised, with sound that is at times rough.
Prizes and reception
Robert Flaherty Award of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts; ninth in the ranking of the best Canadian films drawn up by the Toronto festival.
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