Rooftop Lempicka
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.
- Year: 2025
- Country: Vietnam, United States of America
- Genre: Drama
- Studio: Kalei Films
- Keyword: 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, intergenerational friendship, asian family, marginality, age gap friendship, unexpected friendship
- Director: Nguyễn Lương Hằng
- Cast: Jury Quỳnh Lâm, Ngô Phương Thảo, Hoàng Trần Minh Đức, Quang Tuấn, Ngô Nhan Đức Huy
