His Three Daughters. 2024. USA. Written and directed by Azazel Jacobs. With Carrie Coon, Natasha Lyonne, Elizabeth Olsen. 35mm courtesy Netflix. 104 min.
At the start of Azazel Jacobs’s affecting drama, three sisters reunite in a Manhattan apartment when their ailing father takes a turn for the worse. Days blur into nights as the three women (played with superb feeling by Carrie Coon, Natasha Lyonne, Elizabeth Olsen) learn to make sense of the inevitable—and of each other. Between the grim practicalities of hospice care and the heaviness of waiting, age-old tensions reemerge in a sharp, poignant chamber piece that lays bare the messy intimacy of grief, grievance, and what confronting death can tell us about living.