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Testament (2004 film)
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'Ten'ja' (Arabic: , 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.Peter I. Barta, Phil Powrie 'Bicultural Literature and Film in French and English' 2015 1317564774 p93 "As a Moroccan migr 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 tait 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 1841506621Sylvie Durmelat, Vinay Swamy - Screening Integration: Recasting Maghrebi Immigration in ... - 2012 080323838X p.15 "Focusing on Ten'ja (Legzouli 2004), Bled number one (AmeurZameche 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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Category:2004 films
Category:Moroccan drama films
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