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10/27/06
49 Up (2006)
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Reviews Counted:62
Fresh:60
Rotten:2
Average Rating:8.1/10
Consensus: The latest installment in this remarkable series, 49 Up is a satisfying continuation of Michael Apted's singular sociological and cinematic experiment.
Runtime: 2 hrs 15 mins
Genre: Musical & Performing Arts
US Box Office: $0
Synopsis: Seven years have passed since 42 UP, which means it's time for another installment in Michael Apted's landmark documentary series. What began as a project to expose harsh class distinctions in... [More]
Director: Michael Apted
Reviews for 49 Up
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08/04/06
Top CriticIt is refreshing to see people on the screen who are neither particularly influential, political nor clutching at the dress of fame.... There is great humour and poignancy in their stories
07/27/06
Top CriticEssential viewing
08/28/09
There should not be an adult in the western world who isn't at least tacitly familiar with Michael Apted's groundbreaking documentary series based on the idea that a person's personality is formed by the age of seven.
04/24/09
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04/23/09
Time-lapse cinematography taken at seven year intervals.
09/29/07
Even those wondering about the gaps and "missing pieces" or what will happen in the future will not be disappointed by this remarkable work.
03/01/07
The wonder of 49 Up is its unfolding, within a little more than two hours, of so many specific lives...
11/11/06
Michael Apted's Up series remains one of the great imaginative leaps in film.
11/03/06
Top CriticI can think of no single movie, fictional or factual, that more strongly awakens our common humanity or that establishes such a marvelous, tight bond with its characters.
11/02/06
Doesn't tell us about these people's lives so much as it splashes a cold hourglass of water in the face, reminding us that time can slowly turn us into someone unrecognizable, especially to ourselves.
10/28/06
The segments are so cleverly arranged -- [director Michael Apted] includes past pictorial references for each of the people we revisit -- that now there is something almost mystical involved.
10/26/06
Apted continues his seminal docu series with another riveting chapter. The film no longer belongs to him: Feeling their privacy has been invaded, the subjcets talk back, trying to shape their own narrative and even withhold vital information from him.
10/26/06
A reality show that transcends that now-hackneyed phrase to become an utterly unique work of 'popular history'--and of art.
10/22/06
As a viewer, I feel privileged to be able to peer into their private lives perchance to learn something useful about my private life.
10/16/06
But a funny thing happened on the way to the class-warfare lecture: Most of the subjects got on with living their lives, ignoring their class distinctions in the process.
10/13/06
I'll wait breathlessly for 56 Up, and hope this brave group will speak to the camera again; giving us the gift of a share in their lives.
10/13/06
Now, they are middle-aged, and (unfair to spoil small surprises here) embedded in life with some learned wisdom.
10/13/06
Surprisingly, the discussions of normal, average-life events are pretty fascinating and relatable. The films continue to be part of a moving sociological portrait of England and everyday life.
10/13/06
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