Netflix Pays $7 Million for TIFF Drama ‘His Three Daughters,” Starring Natasha Lyonne, Elizabeth Olsen and Carrie Coon
variety.comAngelique Jackson Netflix has acquired worldwide rights to “His Three Daughters,” starring Natasha Lyonne, Elizabeth Olsen and Carrie Coon, following its world premiere at the Toronto Film Festival.
Netflix had no comment on terms of the deal, which is reported to be for just under $7 million. Written, directed and edited by Azazel Jacobs, the film presents a tense, captivating, and touching portrait of family dynamics with Lyonne, Olsen and Coon starring as sisters who converge after their father’s health declines.
In his review, Variety chief film critic Owen Gleiberman praised the drama as “funny, moving and true,” with its trio of lead actors delivering “superb” performances that “work together like a piece of chamber music.” He wrote: “The film is a finely observed, winningly unsentimental memory play about three adult sisters who have come together to take care of their father, who is dying of cancer and approaching his final days.
It’s like ‘Cries and Whispers’ recast as a fast-talking tale of sibling rivalry.” Gleiberman also saluted Jacobs as “a filmmaker who has finally come into his own,” adding, “Azazel Jacobs was always gifted.
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