Cloud Atlas

Director: Lilly Wachowski, Lana Wachowski, Tyler Tykwer

2012 / 172min / DCP

Bae Doona joins a formidable ensemble cast that includes Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Jim Broadbent, and Hugh Grant, each taking on multiple roles, in the Wachowsky’s and Tykwer’s madly ambitious, epoch-spanning adaptation of David Mitchell’s 2004 novel of the same name, their film shuttling back and forth along a timeline whose various stopoffs include an attorney’s awakening to the abolitionist cause on the mid-19th century Chatham Islands, a composer’s creative agonies in immediately pre-World War II Britain, and the rebellion of a humanoid “fabricant” Sonmi-451 (Bae), in the totalitarian Neo Seoul of 2144. Pilloried by some, the ultimate film maudit to others, declared “daring and visionary” by an ebullient Roger Ebert in the Chicago Sun-Times, and without question the only 21st-century blockbuster to garner comparison to D.W. Griffith’s Intolerance, say what you will, there is only one Cloud Atlas.

Distributor: Warner Bros.

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