His Three Daughters

I really wish those making movies would consult medical personnel before making a movie. This movie is solid when it comes to family relations and how the stress of losing a loved one brings out the silent and unsaid. However, from a medical aspect, hospice patients sign a document stating what their wishes are when doing the paperwork with hospice. The hospice medical director signs off on it, so that made some scenes unnecessary. Also, there are no cardiac monitors, no IVs with hospice, and nurses do not come and sit at the bedside because time is money in healthcare. (We wish we could spend that time). Besides that, this movie reflects real life, it is entertaining, and does not include the standard forced Hollywood social indoctrination. So, thank you, for just entertaining the audience.

This a very well-scripted and executed film about an upcoming death in the family, and the abyss that it leaves.. sucking those around to the center of it, for the better.

You know exactly how it is going to end, but it is what it leaves you with that matters! And what it sets out to do, it achieves with masterful craftsmanship by everyone involved.

From giving you a believable semblance of 4 different people's lives, how it captures some gut-wrenching sentiments, pain, the interactions between the well-performed sisters, that awkward feeling of people slotting back into someone else's life, and Natasha Lyonne's stand-out character gettings some kind "redemption" in the end. I also liked the "sound of the city" in the credits.

Very enjoyable! In its own way.

His Three Daughters is a terrific showcase for all three of its stars with a contained story that's emotionally taxing yet still has so much warmth. It's the ideal run time that allows it to take its time without feeling too slow. There's a generally theatrical feel that comes from its focus on performances and minimal locations which is counterbalanced by how good the technical craft is in ways that are designed to go unnoticed.

Natasha Lyonne, Elizabeth Olsen, and Carrie Coon are all brilliant in their own way. Natasha Lyonne is initially the most laid back of the group with greater pain and anger revealing itself soon after. Carrie Coon is the most highly strung and Elizabeth Olsen has the most expressive eyes which show all of her anguish. When they argue it's gripping to watch and they're even better when they do come together.

As director, writer and editor Azazel Jacobs displays many talents at once without drawing attention to them. His editing does a great job of making the characters feel further apart than they are when they're at odds and his dialogue feels strained yet tender. Rodrigo Amarante's cinematography is gorgeous with a grain that only adds to the beauty and framing which uses the confined spaces to create memorable moments.

A lovely and beautiful movie about bonds and sisterhood, it makes you think twice about your sister and you can always do better.

This movie shows real sisters that you need to treat your sister better because you don't know the struggles she is facing, you literally dont know your sister darling.

So dont take for granted you relationship with your family ok, this movie has amazing performances by the three leads specially Natasha (she is my choices in the oscars)

And of course the ending scenes are emotional and ignore the review saying that that was unnecessary, he is obviously no director 8/10

Another great movie this 2024.

This is more of a play than a film. It's talky and claustrophobic, to the point that when at last it moves to an outside scene, you almost feel like you're breathing in cold fresh air.

Interest is sustained throughout, not so much by way of events, as by the interactions of the three very different sisters, and the few peripheral characters that surround them. Dealing with the impending death of a parent, this will (maybe) touch a nerve with some, and give others more fortunate (maybe) an insight to the dynamics to be expected. But I did not find it at any time morose or Maudling or over emotional, the occasionally amusing scenes kept it in check.

My only criticism was near the end, where a 10 minutes or so scene, could/should have been omitted IMO. For me it just interrupted the flow and broke the rhythm of the previous hour+.