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
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