Rooftop Lempicka
movie
Released March 15, 2025
Genres:
Overview
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.
Runtime
0h 20m
Origin Country
United States
Original Language
Vietnamese
Original Title
Lempicka Trên Mái Nhà
Status
Released
Production Countries
- Vietnam
- United States of America
Spoken Languages
- Tiếng Việt (Vietnamese)
Production Companies
Kalei Films
United States
Keywords
- 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
