Lee's first feature film, played on Saturday and after seeing Grain in the Ear boy were we ready for something completely different. Red Doors is the director's vaguely autobiographical story of a modern Chinese-American family in crisis—three daughters and their father are all tangling with their personal demons. The eldest daughter, played by Jaqueline Kim is the proto-typical type-A achiever. Her impending marriage to an equally resume-perfect ivy-leaguer is thrown into question when she encounters her ex-boyfriend, a scruffy musician type who plunks out mellow Jack Johnson-esque tunes on his acoustic guitar. Her father's retirement exacerbates what appears to be some sort of existential crisis/depressive episode, meanwhile the middle sister is either having a sexual epiphany or finally acting on one (we weren't quite sure which) and the youngest sister (played by the filmmaker's own youngest sister) is engaged in an escalating prank-war with the object of her desire.

SFist MiHi Ahn, contributing

Image from Red Doors

Red Doors