Coming up
I'm tentatively dipping my toe into football training again tonight after a couple of weeks on the sidelines with a swollen leg and groin injury. I played my first game for the Phnom Penh-based Bayon Wanderers team a couple of weeks and have lived to regret it ever since - after 7 years without kicking a ball in anger my body rejected the sudden explosion in activity and rightly told me so! Watch this space for more injury reports.
The Meta House (Street 264) month of film and documentary screenings has already begun and this evening's offering is Rithy Panh's The Burnt Theatre, blending fact and fiction as it depicts a group of actors and dancers living and working in the burnt-out shell of Cambodia's former national theatre. Tomorrow (Thursday) will see some rare 1965 super-16mm footage of Cambodia's development through the early 1960s, followed by one of Norodom Sihanouk's films, Rose of Bokor. Filmed in 1969 on Bokor mountain amongst other locations around Cambodia, it features the King and his wife Monique (pictured), as Rose, amidst the triangle of French and Japanese control and the growing seeds of Khmer independence. Friday night will host three documentaries on HIV/Aids in Southeast Asia and on Saturday night, Rain Falls from Earth will enjoy its Cambodian premiere. All films begin at 7pm.
The Meta House (Street 264) month of film and documentary screenings has already begun and this evening's offering is Rithy Panh's The Burnt Theatre, blending fact and fiction as it depicts a group of actors and dancers living and working in the burnt-out shell of Cambodia's former national theatre. Tomorrow (Thursday) will see some rare 1965 super-16mm footage of Cambodia's development through the early 1960s, followed by one of Norodom Sihanouk's films, Rose of Bokor. Filmed in 1969 on Bokor mountain amongst other locations around Cambodia, it features the King and his wife Monique (pictured), as Rose, amidst the triangle of French and Japanese control and the growing seeds of Khmer independence. Friday night will host three documentaries on HIV/Aids in Southeast Asia and on Saturday night, Rain Falls from Earth will enjoy its Cambodian premiere. All films begin at 7pm.
posted by Andy Brouwer at
10:20 AM
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What a disappointment! The audience attending the screening of The Rose of Bokor film at Meta House last night had disappeared before the film was halfway through. They'd sat through an hour of promotional films about Cambodia and its development in various fields such as agriculture, industry, education and so on, shot in 1965, but quickly left once the film made by the former King, Norodom Sihanouk began. I managed to last until half way through then I too departed.
Why? Well the film had been very badly dubbed into Korean (!) together with a gruesome soundtrack by the Korean State Orchestra, and the English subtitles were so bad that it was impossible to make sense of the dialogue. I had assumed the film would be in the Khmer language and took along a Khmer friend, who was totally non-plussed by the whole event. Whilst it was very interesting to see how Bokor Palace looked in all its glory, the awful dubbing, music and wooden acting on screen did not make for an unforgettable filmatic experience!
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