This review was written during the 2023 WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes.
Without the labor of the writers and actors currently on strike, the film being covered here wouldn’t exist.Late into His Three Daughters, the tremendous new film from French Exit and The Lovers writer-director Azazel Jacobs, one of the title’s three daughters, Christina (Elizabeth Olsen), shares one of her memories with her soon-to-be passed father Vincent (Jay O.
Sanders).
She remembers a moment when the two were watching a movie where a character died, and Vincent—who had just lost his wife and Christina’s mother—was upset about the unrealistic way death was handled.
To Vincent’s point, death and loss are topics that we all will deal with, and yet it’s extremely difficult for a film to effectively express what these situations are like.
His Three Daughters isn’t one of these films.
In fact, Jacobs…
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