Des mots du bitume aux maux de l’asphalte. L’auto-adaptation cinématographique de la “banlieuepoétique” de Samuel Benchetrit

In 2015, with his film Macadam Stories, Samuel Benchetrit made his very first attempt at self-adaptation, combining his two greatest passions, completely complementary: writing the words of bitumen and staging the troubles of asphalt. This intersemiotics transposition of the first volume of the Chroniques de l’asphalte (2005), entitled Le Temps des tours, plays entirely on the double meaning of an homophony that invades his writing (mots/maux) and of a synonymy of places and environments that indisputably become the symbol of a literary space: the Benchetritian suburbpoetics.