Testament (2004 film)

Testament
Testament
Arabic	تينجا,
Directed by	Hassan Legzouli
Written by	Hassan Legzouli, Emmanuelle Sardou
Starring	Roschdy Zem, Aure Atika, Abdou El Mesnaoui
Release date	2004;
Country	Morocco
Language	Arabic

Ten'ja (Arabic: تينجا, English title Testament) is a 2004 Arabic-language French-Moroccan film directed by Hassan Legzouli, written by the director and Emmanuelle Sardou. The film stars Roschdy Zem, Aure Atika, and Abdou El Mesnaoui.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]

References

^ Peter I. Barta, Phil Powrie Bicultural Literature and Film in French and English 2015 1317564774 p93 "As a Moroccan émigré filmmaker, even one who has lived in France for over twenty years, Legzouli presumably has a ... Legzouli's largely uncritical (re-)investment in the myth of return identifies Ten'ja as the most conventional of all the return"
^ Alistair Fox, Michel Marie, Raphaelle Moine A Companion to Contemporary French Cinema 2015 1118585364 - p.154 "... Exils / Exiles (Tony Gatlif, 2004); Ten'ja / Testament (Hassan Legzouli, 2004); Il était unefois dans l'oued / Once Upon a Time in the Oued (Djamel Bensalah, 2005); Bled Number One. The journeys depicted in these films are at once physical (traveling through space and time) and metaphorical (leading to a greater self-understanding on the part of the protagonist) and can pose as many problems as they provide answers."
^ Michael Gott, Thibaut Schilt Open Roads, Closed Borders: The Contemporary French-language Road Movie 2013 1841506621
^ Sylvie Durmelat, Vinay Swamy - Screening Integration: Recasting Maghrebi Immigration in ... - 2012 080323838X p.15 "Focusing on Ten'ja (Legzouli 2004), Bled number one (AmeurZaïmeche 2006), and Exils (Gatlif 2004), Higbee suggests that these films reappropriate the road-movie genre in order to reflect on the meaning of displacement and belonging, .."

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[1] Peter I. Barta, Phil Powrie Bicultural Literature and Film in French and English 2015 1317564774 p93 "As a Moroccan émigré filmmaker, even one who has lived in France for over twenty years, Legzouli presumably has a ... Legzouli's largely uncritical (re-)investment in the myth of return identifies Ten'ja as the most conventional of all the return"

[2] Alistair Fox, Michel Marie, Raphaelle Moine A Companion to Contemporary French Cinema 2015 1118585364 - p.154 "... Exils / Exiles (Tony Gatlif, 2004); Ten'ja / Testament (Hassan Legzouli, 2004); Il était unefois dans l'oued / Once Upon a Time in the Oued (Djamel Bensalah, 2005); Bled Number One. The journeys depicted in these films are at once physical (traveling through space and time) and metaphorical (leading to a greater self-understanding on the part of the protagonist) and can pose as many problems as they provide answers."

[3] Michael Gott, Thibaut Schilt Open Roads, Closed Borders: The Contemporary French-language Road Movie 2013 1841506621

[4] Sylvie Durmelat, Vinay Swamy - Screening Integration: Recasting Maghrebi Immigration in ... - 2012 080323838X p.15 "Focusing on Ten'ja (Legzouli 2004), Bled number one (AmeurZaïmeche 2006), and Exils (Gatlif 2004), Higbee suggests that these films reappropriate the road-movie genre in order to reflect on the meaning of displacement and belonging, .."

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