‘The Oldest Person In The World’ Review

Oscar-nominated filmmaker Sam Green visits the oldest person in the world, and then their successor, and their successor, and so on, while also reflecting on his own mortality.

Many documentarians, especially those prone to first-person narration, reach a point where they make a film about mortality. Maybe it’s because they get to a certain age, or they receive an unfortunate diagnosis, or a parent or other loved one dies. Or they have children — which I know from experience can really alter your sense of time — and film them …