De la BD au film : relations intermédiales, enjeux esthétiques et narratifs

This study focuses on two intermedial transpositions from comics to cinema: that of the Etienne Davodeau graphic novel Lulu femme nue (Futuropolis, 2008 and 2010) in the same titled Solveig Anspach's film (2013) and that of Bastien Vivès Polina (Casterman, 2011) in Polina danser sa vie by Angelin Preljocaj and Valérie Müller (2016). After reading the graphic novels and viewing the films, we realize that the passage from one medium to the other does not only imply inevitable changes due to the incarnation of the characters, the presence of real scenery and the simplification of narrations because of a different temporality in the cinema. There are also sometimes larger transformations that profoundly alter the narratives of the stories. In the light of studies on intersemiotic adaptation we will sketch some reflections on the passage of a story from one medium to another.