Article: A virtual revisitation of the relationship between creature and creator in Gabriele Salvatores' Nirvana.(Cinema)(Critical essay)

In line with his penchant for journey and the making of new experiences Gabriele Salvatores widens further his perspective on the cinema and on the world with the release of the unconventional film Nirvana in 1997. The film opens by advertising the homonymous game available on CD: "Nirvana, dove finisce il film comincia il gioco. Il CD per continuare questa incredibile avventura." The opening sequence with its digital effects and futuristic setting readily makes Nirvana a rare Italian produced and directed science fiction film, in a country renown to the general viewer and/or film-illiterate mostly for its neo-realist filmmaking and comedy Italian style tradition. Such an ...

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