At last year’s Toronto International Film Festival, Netflix acquired three well-reviewed films: “Hit Man,” “Woman of the Hour” and “His Three Daughters.”
Directed by Azazel Jacobs (“Terri,” “The Lovers”),“His Three Daughters” which was bought for just under $7 million, is a small and delicately balanced film about grief and old scars. It has now been dated by the streamer for a very limited theatrical launch on September 6.
The film revolves around three grown sisters, in a small Manhattan apartment, driving each other crazy, while their unseen father lies dying of cancer, hooked up to a morphine drip, in a nearby bedroom. There are the inevitable DNR forms, hospice nurses who come and go, siblings who collide, and childhood scars that are unearthed.
The film takes place almost entirely in a New York City apartment — it could have veered into staginess, but Jacobs, for the most part, avoids those pitfalls. You can read my “His Three Daughters” review — it’s worth a look for the three great performances in it, from Carrie Coon, Elisabeth Olsen and Natasha Lyonne.