As sisters reuniting in a crowded New York apartment, the actresses mourn, bicker, and build an affecting bond.
), and Rachel are not trained for this. Like so many of us, they revert back to familiar childhood roles once in their father’s presence, even though for most of the film he goes unseen, represented only by a relentlessly beeping heart monitor. Katie is the oldest, bossiest one, fixating on getting her father’s Do Not Resuscitate order signed when she’s not harping on Rachel, who’s still living at home and, in Katie’s eyes, is not pulling her weight.
The film opens with a series of virtually unbroken monologues, the sisters reuniting and immediately presenting themselves to each other— Katie rushed and irritable, Christina smiling and apologetic, Rachel stonily silent until she steps outside for a smoke break. It’s a theatrical flourish from writer-directorHis Three Daughters
finds cinematic power not just in its intimacy— Lyonne’s silent movie star eyes have rarely evoked so much— but with Jacobs’s careful camera, building a fully realized world within these weathered apartment walls.was assembled slowly over time; Katie and Christina’s mom died when they were young, and when their father remarried Rachel’s mom she became “like his own”— or simply “his own,” depending on who you ask.
All the while the sisters are anticipating the moment of their father’s death, both eager and terrified to be released from their purgatory. Their father’s simultaneous presence and absence becomes more dominant as the film unfurls, and whenarrives to play him, the deep feelings that usually come with death in the movies finally burst open.
The three lead performances are the film’s main event, and what will likely help it find distribution following its TIFF premiere. Coon, despite having shown her seemingly infinite range before, remains a marvel as the motor-mouthed Katie, who seems both frustrated by her own capacity for cruelty and unable to stop it. Lyonne tones down herbravado to play someone more fragile and quiet, speaking volumes even as she hides in her bedroom.
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