Miguel, le nouveau Dante : voyage entre le film d’animation Coco et le poème dantesque

In 2017 Disney and Pixar released the animated film Coco. The story revolves around the Mexican festivity Día de los Muertos, when the main character, Miguel Rivera, following a personal and familiar crisis, begins a journey in the afterlife. While the majority of the existing studies concerns mainly the cultural perspective of the festivity and the fundamental role of family, the aim of this paper is to demonstrate a more intrinsic relation, that is the one between the film and literature, especially with the Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy. The analysis begins with the observations about five characters, then moves to five places and scenes, and finally concludes with three topics. Each of these aspects is compared to the Italian poem. The results lead to the importance of proposing further studies on the same film, or other films, in order to observe the relationship between the literary background, especially the medieval one, and cinema.