XAVIER de Lauzanne worked in the hospitality industry for 10 years before deciding to pursue his dream of becoming a filmmaker. He’s made several documentaries since he began his film career, including Les Pepites or Little Gems, a film about an NGO in Cambodia, as well as a second more recent Cambodian documentary called The Perfect Motion, which focuses on Cambodia’s Royal Ballet.
Cambodia has often featured in the Western imagination as a place of plunder and pilfering. Temples and artefacts of exquisite beauty have exercised the interest of adventurers and buccaneers who looted with almost kleptocratic tendency. In 1924, the French novelist and future statesman André Malraux, proved himself one of Europe’s greatest adventurers in making off
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Their copper and silver sculptures are among the most well known in the country, like the statue of Supreme Patriach Chuon Nath, the royal tiered Chatra parasols, the Sakyamuni Stupa at Phnom Oudong hill, also known as Phnom Preah Reach Troap, and the logos of the Ministry of Interior and ruling Cambodian People’s Party.