3 sisters and one empty recliner

DEATH CAN BOTH TEAR FAMILY MEMBERS apart and bind them closer-often simultaneously.

- STEPHANIE ZACHAREK

That's the mysterious dynamic writerdirector Azazel Jacobs mines in His Three Daughters, a story of three mismatched sisters who gather in their childhood home, a modest, rent-controlled Manhattan apartment, to usher their dying father into the whatever-it-is-thatcomes-next. The eldest, bossy, uptight Katie (Carrie Coon), feels the need to steer the ship, as everyone else seems incapable; she's particularly obsessed with a "Do not resuscitate" form that her father was supposed to have signed when he was still cogent. Christina (Elizabeth Olsen) has left her family, thousands of miles away, to join her sisters in this emotionally rattling endeavor. A onetime Deadhead and yoga nut, she seems to be the calmest of the lot, though her quietude barely masks her annoying self-absorption.