By John Corrado

Netflix has released the first trailer (and poster) for His Three Daughters, which actually premiered at last year’s Toronto International Film Festival, where the streamer picked it up. This happened to be the last movie I saw at TIFF last year, and it’s a solid, dialogue-driven chamber piece centred around the death of a parent.

Written and directed by Azazel Jacobs (French Exit), the emotional drama explores the dynamics between three sisters, played by Carrie Coon, Elizabeth Olsen and Natasha Lyonne, who are preparing for the imminent death of their father. It mainly unfolds in this one apartment, and the trailer gives a good sense of the feel of the film, and the trio of engaging performances at its centre. Lyonne is the standout, and would deserve a bit of a Best Supporting Actress push.

His Three Daughters will be released in select theatres on September 6th, and will be streaming exclusively on Netflix as of September 20th (a full year after it premiered at TIFF). The full trailer and official synopsis are below. Please comment your thoughts below if you have watched the trailer, or are planning to watch the film.

“From writer-director Azazel Jacobs (French Exit, The Lovers) comes this bittersweet and often funny story of an elderly patriarch and the three grown daughters who come to be with him in his final days. Katie (Carrie Coon) is a controlling Brooklyn mother dealing with a wayward teenage daughter; free-spirited Christina (Elizabeth Olsen) is a different kind of mom, separated from her offspring for the first time; and Rachel (Natasha Lyonne) is a sports-betting stoner who has never left her father’s apartment — much to the chagrin of her half-sisters, who share a different mother and worldview. Continuing his astute exploration of family dynamics in close-knit spaces, Jacobs follows the siblings over the course of three volatile days, as death looms, grievances erupt, and love seeps through the cracks of a fractured home.”