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49 Up - The Up Series (TV)

49 Up - The Up Series

2005

Michael Apted

Documentary

7.8

123

Documentary The Up Series is a series of seven documentary films that has followed the lives of fourteen British children since 1964, when they were seven years old. The children were selected primarily to represent the full range of socio-economic backgrounds in Britain at that time, with the explicit assumption that each child's "class" predetermines their future. Every seven years, the director, Michael Apted, films new material from as many of ... [+]

	Media	Author	Review
		A. O. Scott The New York Times	"[These people] have become, through Mr. Apted’s films, a vital part of modern life, which seems to grow richer every seven years, when the new 'Up' movie comes out."
		Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"This is not reality TV with its contrivances and absurdities, but a meditation on lifetimes (...) As its installments accumulate in my memory, they cause me to regard the arc of my own life (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"
		J.R. Jones Chicago Reader	"This seventh installment is utterly fascinating"
		Moira MacDonald Seattle Times	"An emotional experience, an uncanny sensation of watching lives fast-forward before your eyes (...) I'll wait breathlessly for '56 Up'"
		Ed Gonzalez Slant	"[These films serve] not only as reminders of our mortality but as instruments to measure how much, or how little, we’ve accomplished in our short lives (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"
		Noel Murray AV Club	"If the purpose of the 'Up' series has been to show how class determines destiny in the UK, then what we've actually learned is that everyone there gets a fair shot to make it to the middle."
		Marjorie Baumgarten Austin Chronicle	"This world-famous British series is one of the great achievements of the cinema, one that reveals the potential of an observant camera plus the passage of time to capture reality (…) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 5)"

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