Rooftop Lempicka
2025-03-15 vi 20m
Drama
While her mother is expecting their second child, young Thi befriends Ngoc, a club waitress who has just moved in as a tenant in their family home. As their friendship grows, she discovers that Ngoc is secretly a sex worker. Meanwhile, an art book of Tamara de Lempicka’s female nudes, stolen from a bookshop, silently bears witness.
Director
Nguyễn Lương Hằng
Director of Photography
Carlos Estrada
Production Design
Anh La
Editor
Mira Thu
Original Music Composer
Yi-Chun Tsai
Executive Producer
Nguyễn Lương Hằng
friendship prostitute sexuality home pregnancy asia painting house female friendship drawing and painting urban life coming of age sexual intercourse urban memory tenant prostitution art pregnant woman family womanhood urban setting childhood home mysterious woman childhood childhood friends sexual awakening escort girl vietnamese southeast asia unlikely friendship asian woman woman director portrait painting exploring sexuality sex worker female sexuality painter as artist fine art loss of innocence sex work self image life on the margin adult child friendship paintings landlady tenant relationship childhood innocence painting comes to life asian sexual discovery self exploration oil painting sexual curiosity friendship between women women empowerment girlhood childhood memory girl marginalization art déco vietnamese woman women vietnamese female director girls asian cinema nostalgic memory childhood curiosity asian household famous painting woman fine arts childhood connection asian family marginality age gap friendship unexpected friendship
Status
ReleasedCountries
- Vietnam
- United States of America
Companies
- Kalei Films
