Older Than Ireland (2015)

OLDER THAN IRELAND  (2015)  ¢ ¢ ¢ ¢
    D: Alex Fegan
Irish folks who have lived to be 100 or more talk about life, love, dreams, accomplishments, adventures, regrets, death and the afterlife. Some are old enough to remember the Easter Rebellion, which makes you wish they'd been asked more questions about the history they've lived through. Their personal stories are history, too, of course, and the movie's content to stand back and let them tell their tales. It's all beautifully edited and shot, combining the testimony of its ancient witnesses with a point-blank physical appraisal of what a century looks like. From the blind, toothless, bedridden man of 108, to the sharp-tongued 104-year-old who's clearly not ready to swear off cigarettes, to Ireland's oldest citizen, who looks like she could still kick ass at 113, they're a variably spry and feisty bunch. The rest of us, if we're doomed to live that long, should be so lucky.