“His Three Daughters” is Touching
A look at death and the absence it creates in our lives
In His Three Daughters, three estranged sisters gather together, waiting for their father to die. Along the way, they learn more about each other, their father, and how we navigate through life.
His Three Daughters really worked for me. The three lead actresses give great performances, the cinematography and use of space are brilliant, and the minimal score is incredibly effective. Each of the sisters is so different from the others, and the ways they collide are interesting to watch.
I love that this film chooses to center on the daughters who are dealing with grief rather than the person who is dying. Death is something that touches all of us eventually. The people that we know and love will die at some point, but that’s not something that we think about often. And this film invites us into that reality.
The first thing that stood out to me about this film is that there is very little score. Music doesn’t begin until about sixteen minutes into the film. Up until that point, we just hear characters talking with one another, the rhythm of the dialogue filling the space. And for the rest of the movie, music is used pretty sparingly.
