King-Father: Faithful and very moving affection ... in contrast to the attitude of some compatriots who citicized the filming of my film

Translated from French by Luc Sâr

Faithful and very moving affection
By N. Sihanouk

One compatriot sent me letter, recently, in which he revealed to me that, in the villages close to his house, some old ladies pray with fervor to the Heaven so that I reconsider my decision to stop producing film. These respectable old villagers must find that my films constitute a sentimental bridge linking me to them and vice-versa. This moves me tremendously.

Another compatriot living in Holland (in Europe) just wrote me a letter to tell me that his mother loves so much my DVDs in which I am singing in Khmer. For his mother, who lives with him (in Holland), he asks me to send him more DVDs of my “Royal Singing.”

All of this contrast to the attitude [displayed by] some compatriots (young and not too young) who, in Phnom Penh, had harshly criticized the filming (of the first part) of my film “Monatio,” where they believed (wrongfully) that I had “conceived” Khmer Rouge [soldiers] “luxuriously” dressed and “so nice,” while in reality, it was about a movement (“Monatio”) consisting of sons of rich Lonnolians under the command of the son of a high-ranking Voreakchon [VIP] in the Lonnolian (“Khmer Republic”) administration.

(Signed) Norodom Sihanouk