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.
- Original language
- Original title
- Production countries
- Keywords
- Adult child friendship
- Age gap friendship
- Art
- Art déco
- Asia
- Asian
- Asian cinema
- Asian family
- Asian household
- Asian woman
- Childhood
- Childhood connection
- Childhood curiosity
- Childhood friends
- Childhood home
- Childhood innocence
- Childhood memory
- Coming of age
- Drawing and painting
- Escort girl
- Exploring sexuality
- Family
- Famous painting
- Female friendship
- Female sexuality
- Fine art
- Fine arts
- Friendship
- Friendship between women
- Girl
- Girlhood
- Girls
- Home
- House
- Landlady tenant relationship
- Life on the margin
- Loss of innocence
- Marginality
- Marginalization
- Memory
- Mysterious woman
- Nostalgic memory
- Oil painting
- Painter as artist
- Painting
- Painting comes to life
- Paintings
- Portrait painting
- Pregnancy
- Pregnant woman
- Prostitute
- Prostitution
- Self exploration
- Self image
- Sex work
- Sex worker
- Sexual awakening
- Sexual curiosity
- Sexual discovery
- Sexual intercourse
- Sexuality
- Southeast asia
- Tenant
- Unexpected friendship
- Unlikely friendship
- Urban
- Urban life
- Urban setting
- Vietnamese
- Vietnamese female director
- Vietnamese woman
- Woman
- Woman director
- Womanhood
- Women
- Women empowerment
- Vietnamese
- Lempicka Trên Mái Nhà
Rooftop Lempicka
Mar 15, 2025
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20min