About
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
Writer
Producers
Music
Studio
Kalei Films
Original Title
Lempicka Trên Mái Nhà
Original Language
VI
Keywords
prostitute
sexuality
asia
home
pregnancy
female friendship
urban life
painting
drawing and painting
friendship
house
urban
coming of age
memory
tenant
sexual intercourse
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
