Maybe it’s just that we’re sensitive to movies about fathers and daughters. Perhaps it’s that this particular one stars such names as Natasha Lyonne, Elizabeth Olsen, and Carrie Coon. Or maybe it’s just that the trailer for His Three Daughters is such an emotional, but relatable rollercoaster, that we feel like we can handle the grief that it’ll bring. Either way, we’re both very emotional about the movie and also really looking forward to it.
Movies about grief are hard in general. Movies about families dealing with grief? Those can be a home run or a strikeout, forgive the sports reference. We’ve got high hopes for His Three Daughters, we do.
From writer-director Azazel Jacobs (French Exit, The Lovers) comes this bittersweet and often funny story of an elderly patriarch and the three grown daughters who come to be with him in his final days. Katie (Carrie Coon) is a controlling Brooklyn mother dealing with a wayward teenage daughter; free-spirited Christina (Elizabeth Olsen) is a different kind of mom, separated from her offspring for the first time; and Rachel (Natasha Lyonne) is a sports-betting stoner who has never left her father’s apartment — much to the chagrin of her half-sisters, who share a different mother and worldview. Continuing his astute exploration of family dynamics in close-knit spaces, Jacobs follows the siblings over the course of three volatile days, as death looms, grievances erupt, and love seeps through the cracks of a fractured home.
You can check out the trailer for His Three Daughters below:
His Three Daughters will be released in select theaters on September 6th and premiere on Netflix on September 20th.
