56 Up
In 1964 a group of seven year old children were interviewed for the documentary "Seven Up". They've been filmed every seven years since. Now they are 56.
Synopsis
"56 Up" (2012) — watch online on iFILM — is the eighth installment of Michael Apted's landmark British documentary series, now running across 49 years of the same lives.
In 1964, Granada Television filmed fourteen seven-year-olds from across Britain's class spectrum and asked them what they wanted. Apted has come back every seven years since. At 56, some participants have grandchildren; others are navigating illness, redundancy, or second marriages. Neil Hughes — whose homelessness and depression became one of the series' most closely-followed threads — is here again. Tony Walker, who wanted to be a jockey, is still driving a London cab. Bruce Balden spent decades teaching in underfunded schools before marrying for the first time just a film ago.
What the "Up" series accumulates is time as evidence. These are not characters constructed for a story; they are people who agreed to be seen. Apted asks almost nothing — and gets everything. Stream "56 Up" (2012) online on iFILM.
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