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As we grow up, we start spending less time with our loved ones due to our busy schedules. With moms and dads, we at least have a dedicated day to be made special. But what hurts the most are those people in our lives that we eventually get farther from, but the child in our heart wants to go back to spending time with them. Those are our siblings. Lucky for us that there is this one special film on Netflix that highlights this special bond.

If you are done watching action, thriller and mystery-horror content on Netflix, get ready as we have got a realistic dramedy for you. His Three Daughters is an amazing, slow-burning emotional film available on Netflix that will make you feel right at home. For all its quietude, this film arrives with a roar. Beneath its muted palette, bare-bones setting, and sparse camera work lies a deeply affecting drama that captures the fragility of familial bonds without sensationalising the pain

Directed by Azazel Jacobs and starring Natasha Lyonne, Elizabeth Olsen, and Carrie Coon, the film peels away the polite veneers of life. The ones that often mask real-life grief, forcing its characters and us to sit with discomfort. The premise is simple: three estranged sisters reunite to care for their dying father. That’s it. No car chases, no sudden third-act twists. Just the raw, unvarnished tension of three women trying and often failing to connect over the slow unravelling of someone they all love differently.

At first glance, His Three Daughters looks like your average Netflix indie. With minimalistic galore, long silences, and the occasional burst of piano in the background. It keeps reminding you that yes, feelings are being felt. But push past the aesthetic shorthand, and what emerges is a film of striking emotional clarity.

A Netflix masterpiece with a minimalist setup, maximum tension

What works astonishingly well is the way Jacobs allows his characters to breathe and bristle in real time. Lyonne is magnetic as the oldest daughter, Rachel, a sharp-tongued pragmatist whose sarcasm hides a bottomless well of guilt. Olsen’s role as the well-meaning but emotionally contained middle sister is perhaps the most restrained performance she has ever given. Carrie Coon, as the youngest, brings a jittery restlessness to the trio, often sparking the most chaotic moments in an otherwise measured film.

The camera rarely leaves the confines of the small apartment where the story unfolds. That tight framing is not just a stylistic choice, it is a statement. The perfect background for the story. It was necessary so that these women could not escape each other. Their shared space becomes a pressure cooker for unresolved grievances, childhood hierarchies, and the claustrophobic rituals of impending death. If you have ever spent a few days in close quarters with extended family under emotionally charged circumstances, you’ll recognise the mood: everyone’s trying their best, and yet nothing feels quite right.

What the film nails is the rhythm of real conversation. Interruptions, silences, throwaway lines that cut too deep. It does not polish these moments for drama. Instead, it holds them up like uncomfortable truths and says, “Look.” You believe these sisters. You believe their petty fights, their private grief, and their failed attempts to be generous.

However, this Netflix classic is not completely flawless. There are moments when the script slips into self-awareness, as though the characters know they are in an indie film. A monologue here, a lingering stare there at times, it feels a bit too crafted, too aware of its own subtlety.

The film’s refusal to offer neat emotional resolutions might frustrate some, but that is part of its quiet brilliance. It is not interested in giving us closure. It is interesting in showing how we navigate the mess before it. The sisters do not get a grand reconciliation, and neither do we. What they get instead are small gestures, one extra second of eye contact, a softened insult, a shared cup of tea. These are the emotional currencies the film deals in, and they’re far more honest than the usual teary finales.

Something is refreshing about a Netflix drama that doesn’t try to be everything for everyone. His Three Daughters knows its lane and sticks to it. So if you are in the mood to watch something human, go ahead and pick this one.