‘His Three Daughters’ Review: Carrie Coon, Elizabeth Olsen And Natasha Lyonne As Reunited Sisters In Well-Acted But Claustrophobic Family Drama – Toronto Film Festival
deadline.comWriter/Director Azazel Jacobs has made a couple of indie pictures I really loved. French Exit gave Michelle Pfeiffer one of her meatiest roles in years and she ran with it in a delicious Paris-set tale.
He also provided Debra Winger and Tracy Letts with terrific roles in the sophisticated The Lovers. And now Jacobs shows once again he knows how to attract top actors with well-written characters in the intimate drama, His Three Daughters which stars Carrie Coon, Elizabeth Olsen, and Natasha Lyonne as a trio of sisters gathering in the New York City apartment where their father (Jay O.
Sanders) is down the hall (unseen for most of the film) and near death. They have arrived to spend his final days with him, stretched out here to three, but also to renew their own dysfunctional dynamic in what could easily have been made as a play rather than a film, and feels just a bit too stagey for its own good.
However Jacobs purposely wants the confined atmosphere so as to let the dialogue rise to the top. The film premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival today and is looking for distribution.
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