"Crazy and breathless" (Michel Ciment), and very much influenced by Breathless director Jean-Luc Godard, Identification Marks: None and Walkover, Skolimowski's first two features, form something of a diptych, following the same central character -- disenchanted Andrzej Leszczyc, played by Skolimowski himself -- as he navigates the vicissitudes of young adulthood and the widening chasm between younger and older generations. Freely structured and economically shot, Identification Marks was Skolimowski's diploma film at Lodz Film School, and depicts Leszczyc's final hours before he must depart for two years of military service, as he meets old friends and visits his estranged wife. Skolimowski's own wife, Elzbieta Czyzewska, plays four different women in the film. Both Identification Marks and its follow-up "reveal an astonishingly flexible style . . . Without resorting to a subjective camera, the director nevertheless makes us see reality through his hero. He refuses dramatic plot twists, filming instead in a manner very much like a jazz musician -- all rhythm and improvisation . . . [There is] an extraordinary sense of fluidity, of life caught in its most subtle shifts." (Ciment). "[Skolimowski's] first feature already has his identification marks all over it: the lively, episodic structure full of telling incidents rather than a linear narrative, an off-centre humour, and non-conformism" (Bloomsbury). B&W, 35mm, in Polish with English subtitles. 76 mins.