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.

• 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