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The life and legacy of an architectural master in The Man Who Built Cambodia


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At 90, architect Vann Molyvann no longer cuts the figure that a man of his stature deserves. In an early scene in The Man Who Built Cambodia, a documentary premiering tonight at the French Institute, he shuffles toward a shrine, wearing not his characteristic blue-collared shirt and suspenders, but short sleeves and a pair of track pants. He folds his hands into a sampeah.

 

Yet he is a formidable interviewee, says director Christopher Rompré. “He doesn’t ever go where you think he’s going to go, and he won’t repeat something,” he says.

 

The 37-minute film, the first to focus on Molyvann’s life and legacy, brings a man long absent from the public sphere into an intimate conversation with his audience. Rompré and producer Haig Balian began the project nearly three years ago with a grant from the Asia Foundation, conducting lengthy interviews with the architect in his home – first in Phnom Penh, and then in Siem Reap, where he moved in 2014.

 

read more http://www.phnompenhpost.com/post-weekend/life-and-legacy-architectural-master-man-who-built-cambodia

 

 
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