Testament (2004 film) explained
| Testament |
| Native Name: | |
| Director: | Hassan Legzouli |
| Starring: | Roschdy Zem, Aure Atika, Abdou El Mesnaoui |
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| 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]
Notes and 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, .."
