A stolen art book watches two women fall into each other in 20 perfect minutes.
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.
Cinematography
Every frame aches like a Lempicka painting breathed to life.
Direction
Nguyễn Lương Hằng makes 20 minutes feel infinite.
Director
Nguyễn Lương Hằng
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Tamara de Lempicka painted wealthy, muscular women in the 1920s—her art was both celebration and transaction, mirroring Ngọc's world.
Nguyễn Lương Hằng shot this during her own pregnancy; the film's tension between motherhood and erotic discovery carries autobiographical weight.
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