{"id":224,"date":"2017-01-17T14:09:08","date_gmt":"2017-01-17T19:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/tournees-2017\/?page_id=224"},"modified":"2023-01-31T14:32:10","modified_gmt":"2023-01-31T19:32:10","slug":"may-allah-bless-france","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/tournees-2017\/may-allah-bless-france\/","title":{"rendered":"May Allah Bless France"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>February 2:\u00a0<em>May Allah Bless France<\/em>\u00a0\/ Abd al Malik \/ 2014 \/ 95 min<\/p>\n<p>Opening Reception (6.00 p.m.)<\/p>\n<p>Introduction: <a href=\"http:\/\/french.vassar.edu\/bios\/pacelerier.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Patricia-Pia C\u00e9l\u00e9rier<\/a> (Vassar College, French &amp; Francophone Studies)<\/p>\n<p>Respondent: <a href=\"http:\/\/film.vassar.edu\/bios\/akupfer.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Alexander Kupfer<\/a> (Vassar College, Department of Film)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"May Allah Bless France! - Official HD Trailer\" width=\"604\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2ocM5klJWhA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This riveting first feature by acclaimed French rapper and novelist Abd Al Malik is a coming-of-age story based on the writer-director\u2019s youth in the Strasbourg projects. The film follows the life of a budding rapper relying on petty crime to fund his passion for music. But as his fellow artists begin to deal drugs, R\u00e9gis finds salvation in French literary classics and conversion to Sufi Islam.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><em>This Tourn\u00e9es Film Festival is made possible with the support of the <a href=\"http:\/\/frenchculture.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cultural Services of the French Embassy<\/a> in the U.S., the Centre National du Cin\u00e9ma et de l\u2019Image Anim\u00e9e (CNC), the French American Cultural Fund, Florence Gould Foundation and Highbrow Entertainment. This festival is also supported by a generous <a href=\"http:\/\/humanitiesny.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Humanities New York<\/a> Action Grant (humanitiesny.org).<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The festival is cosponsored by the Department of Film, the Women&#8217;s Studies and International Studies Programs, the Dean of Faculty and the VSA French Club.<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-336\" src=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/tournees-2017\/files\/2017\/01\/Tourn\u00e9es-Banner.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"230\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/tournees-2017\/files\/2017\/01\/Tourn\u00e9es-Banner.jpg 1600w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/tournees-2017\/files\/2017\/01\/Tourn\u00e9es-Banner-300x43.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/tournees-2017\/files\/2017\/01\/Tourn\u00e9es-Banner-768x110.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/tournees-2017\/files\/2017\/01\/Tourn\u00e9es-Banner-1024x147.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>February 2:\u00a0May Allah Bless France\u00a0\/ Abd al Malik \/ 2014 \/ 95 min Opening Reception (6.00 p.m.) Introduction: Patricia-Pia C\u00e9l\u00e9rier (Vassar College, French &amp; Francophone Studies) Respondent: Alexander Kupfer (Vassar College, Department of Film) &nbsp; This riveting first feature by acclaimed French rapper and novelist Abd Al Malik is a coming-of-age story based on the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/tournees-2017\/may-allah-bless-france\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">May Allah Bless France<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":527,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-224","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/tournees-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/tournees-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/tournees-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/tournees-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/527"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/tournees-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/tournees-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":369,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/tournees-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/224\/revisions\/369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/tournees-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}