‘The Immortalists’ is Too Limited in Scope for a Film About Trying to Go On Forever

Human beings are born, age and eventually die. Grappling with death is at the core of many stories, both fictitious and non-fictitious. The usual rule is that anyone who seriously seeks to defeat death is being foolhardy — pitiable at best, dangerously deluded at worst. The Immortalists defies that rule, just like its protagonists wish to defy the whole…