35 Up

There's certainly plenty of food for thought here, but most of it is served raw rather than cooked -- most of the significance of the development of faces, physiques, aspirations, and attitudes over three decades is left to the subjects themselves.

The remaining participants grapple with disillusionment, their reconcilement of the past, and their relationship to their own children.

[35 Up] finds this series growing increasingly rueful with age.

35 Up is a God-like glimpse of the uninterrupted trajectory of lives that is vastly disturbing, cooly scientific and intensely emotional.