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, .."