Pick of the week
His Three Daughters
In Azazel Jacobs’s charged drama, three sisters gather at their father’s New York flat to watch over him as he lies dying. Rachel (Natasha Lyonne), who lives there, spends her time betting on sports and smoking weed, which sets off prickly elder sister Katie (Carrie Coon) and puts Elizabeth Olsen’s more pacific Christina into the role of peacemaker. With the camera rarely leaving the apartment’s few rooms, it’s quite a theatrical setup – a hothouse of delayed grief, sibling resentment and fragile coping strategies. So it’s down to the three very different actors to power the film, and they do so magnificently, their characters’ shifting emotions touching and truthful.
Friday 20 September, Netflix
