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42 Up - The Up Series (TV)

42 Up - The Up Series

1998

Michael Apted

Documentary

7.7

117

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 ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"An inspired, even noble, use of the film medium (...) To look at these films, as I have every seven years, is to meditate on the astonishing fact that man is the only animal that knows it lives in time (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Ed Gonzalez Slant	"'The Up Series' is a powerful humanist statement that isn’t to be missed (...) An anthropological study of human lives (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Manohla Dargis The New York Times	"What gives the 'Up' series its punch is not so much its longevity or the human spectacle it offers, but that these are moving images of touchingly vibrant lives at certain moments in time and space"	POS
United States	Edward Guthmann SFGATE	"This is an amazing record of a group of lives -- and probably more resonant than anyone could have imagined when the project began."	POS
Australia	Richard Kuipers Urbancinefile	"[It] remains the most fascinating and compelling documentary series ever made"	POS
United States	James Berardinelli ReelViews	"[Apted] work on these movies represents something truly unique and special (…) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Scott Tobias AV Club	"The unique privilege of watching them grow up on screen continues to inspire gratitude."	POS
United States	James Berardinelli ReelViews	"Michael Apted's 'The Up Series' is not only documentary filmmaking at its finest, but it is an important sociological study. How many movies can make that claim? (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"	POS

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