Liam Barnes
Phnom Penh Post
Cambodia’s first official cinema is now open – and it is already racking up the admirers
Lights, camera, action... comfortable seats and 3D screens should keep cinema lovers happy at Legend Cinema. Photo by: PHA LINA
CAMBODIA’S affinity for film dates back to the Kingdom’s cultural heyday of the ’60s, when over 300 films were produced, and word has it even King Norodom Sihanouk fancied himself as a silver screen star before the French found a better use for his talents.
The industry inevitably declined in the following years but the filming of high-profile films such as Lara Croft: Tomb Raider in 2001 helped restore some of the country’s damaged cinematic pride.
Recently, it is another Hollywood blockbuster that has got tongues wagging throughout Phnom Penh, and not just because it’s the latest in a growing line of movies to be filmed here.
This week, Transformers: Dark of the Moon became the first licensed foreign film to be shown on a cinema screen in Cambodia.
The industry inevitably declined in the following years but the filming of high-profile films such as Lara Croft: Tomb Raider in 2001 helped restore some of the country’s damaged cinematic pride.
Recently, it is another Hollywood blockbuster that has got tongues wagging throughout Phnom Penh, and not just because it’s the latest in a growing line of movies to be filmed here.
This week, Transformers: Dark of the Moon became the first licensed foreign film to be shown on a cinema screen in Cambodia.
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