35 UP

35 UP (1991, Academy, unrated, $89.95) Every seven years since 1964, director Michael Apted has interviewed the same 13 people and made a film about them. Or, as the insufferable upper-class 7-year-old who has grown into a slightly less insufferable 35-year-old says, ''Every seven years a little poison pill is injected.'' With more ground to cover than its predecessors in this series, 35 Up sometimes feels rushed, but it's still a remarkable spectacle. We watch values take hold, faces age, dreams come true or atrophy. What's most sobering about these lives is how much their 35-year-old selves seem predetermined by age 7. A- -Susan Chumsky

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