You won’t hear Netflix say it, so I will: Carrie Coon deserves her first Oscar nomination for His Three Daughters.
This new family drama began streaming on Netflix today with almost no fanfare for advertising, despite the fact that the streamer shelled out nearly $7 million to acquire the film after it premiered at the Toronto Film Festival last fall. But though the marketing and press has been nearly non-existent, this moving portrait of anticipatory grief is still worth your time for the three powerhouse lead performances—most especially from Coon.
Written, directed, and edited by Azazel Jacobs (French Exit, The Lovers), His Three Daughters stars Coon, Elizabeth Olsen, and Natasha Lyonne as three estranged sisters who are brought back together by their dying father. Coon plays Katie, the fierce, no-nonsense eldest daughter; Olsen plays Christina, a sweet, conflict-avoidant new mother; and Lyonne plays Rachel, a chill, butch stoner who
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