His Three Daughters Music By Rodrigo Amarante
From writer-director Azazel Jacobs (French Exit, The Lovers) comes this bittersweet and often funny story of an elderly patriarch and the three grown daughters who come to be with him in his final days. Katie (Carrie Coon) is a controlling Brooklyn mother dealing with a wayward teenage daughter; free-spirited Christina (Elizabeth Olsen) is a different kind of mom, separated from her offspring for the first time; and Rachel (Natasha Lyonne) is a sports-betting stoner who has never left her father’s apartment — much to the chagrin of her stepsisters, who share a different mother and worldview. Continuing his astute exploration of family dynamics in close-knit spaces, Jacobs follows the siblings over the course of three volatile days, as death looms, grievances erupt, and love seeps through the cracks of a fractured home.
Featuring music by Brazilian composer and songwriter Rodrigo Amarante, His Three Daughters drama stars Carrie Coon, Natasha Lyonne and Elizabeth Olsen as estranged sisters reunited for their ailing father’s final days. Available everywhere now, the album features a poignant piano and small ensemble score created by Amarante and the beautifully cutting song “In Time,” which first appears in the film in an instrumental arrangement and then plays at the end in a pared-down guitar/vocal version. The album adds a full band version of “In Time” and three additional songs imagined by Rodrigo in conversations with the film’s writer and director Azazel Jacobs. A deeply personal project for Amarante, his moving compositions are effortlessly interwoven throughout the film, providing a fitting sonic companion to the touching portrait of family dynamics.
About writing the music for His Three Daughters, composer Amarante says, “I had lost my father shortly before Azazel sent me the script, and just reading it made me realize how much I was holding in from that difficult and confusing experience. It made me see my family in a different light right away, and it cracked me open just enough to hear a quiet sore. As I took it, the assignment was to transform this impossible silence into music, to let it emerge from his story, from those characters, loving them as a means to learn to love my own. Having to lean on this story with a sore heart, forcing it open to hear the music and take note, was the most beautiful way to move towards healing myself from my own grief, and one hell of a way to compose. Writing as a means of discovery; that’s the gift.”
His Three Daughters is now available exclusively on Netflix