Carrie Coon, Natasha Lyonne, and Elizabeth Olsen are brilliant as estranged sisters dealing with their father's hospice in the New York apartment he shares with one (Lyonne in bright pumpkin colored hair). You may recognize the face of character actor Jay O. Sanders as the comatose father. Most reviewers have called it funny, but Jack and I would disagree. However, it is very moving.
Director/writer/editor Azazel Jacobs keeps up the momentum in the claustrophobic setting of (mostly) the apartment. 25 minutes of Rodrigo Amarante's soundtrack is available on Apple Music and elsewhere.
All three main actresses have done some great TV work besides features. Coon was fun in ten episodes of Fargo season 3 and all seventeen of The Gilded Age after I mentioned her in my post on Gone Girl. Lyonne was last blogged for United States vs. Billie Holiday and then she was wonderful in fifteen episodes of Russian Doll, ten of Poker Face, and more. And Olsen, most recently in these pages for Avengers: Infinity War, played the same Marvel character in nine of WandaVision. Jacobs was last blogged for French Exit. Sanders is, according to imdb, best known for The Day After Tomorrow (2004), Revolutionary Road, and others that I haven't seen. This is Amarante's second feature as composer.
Rotten Tomatoes' critics are all in the family with a 98% average and its audiences are showing up for Thanksgiving at 85. We watched it on Netflix on September 25.
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