Former King=92s Film Plays to DC Crowd
By Nuch Sarita, VOA Khmer
Original report from Washington
08 May 2008
=93My Village at Sunset,=94 the first film produced by former king Norodom
Sihanouk following his return from exile in 1991, was screened Tuesday
at a Washington, DC, university.
The film, which stars the current king, Nordom Sihamoni, Sihanouk=92s
son, was screened at George Washington University and introduced by
former ambassador to the UN Sichan Siv.
=93=91My Village at Sunset=92 is a love story about a well-educated young
Khmer doctor who gives up a privileged life in France and returns to
Cambodia,=94 the former ambassador told VOA Khmer.
The young surgeon spends his time working in a hospital, helping
landmine victims, and slowly becomes entangled in a love triangle with
a distant cousin and a nurse. He is eventually driven to join a mine-
disposal team and dies in the countryside.
=93The movie is terrific, and the scenery is beautiful,=94 said Joselynn
Barber, a resident of nearby Arlington, Va. =93I was fascinated to see
the Cambodian sky [and] Angkor Wat, and the story itself was
startling.=94
Some Cambodian-Americans, unable to return to their home country,
expressed admiration and adoration for the simple lives of the
Cambodians and the beauty of the distant country.
=93The movie revealed an inside perspective of Khmer culture, native
music and traditional wedding,=94 said Narin Jameson, who lives in the
state of Maryland.
The Cambodian Buddhist Association of Maryland plans to sponsor a
showing of the film in Silver Spring, Md., for public viewing.
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