Cloud Atlas
Cloud Atlas is a movie which explores how the actions and consequences of individual lives impact one another. As souls are born and reborn, they renew their connections to one another throughout the ages.
18 October 1974, Quzhou, Zhejiang, China
23 December 1971, Binghamton, New York, USA
2 January 1980, Hammersmith, London, England, UK
1981, Magdeburg, German Democratic Republic
18 July 1997, California, USA
2002, USA
15 October 1967, Dietzenbach, Hesse, Germany
4 October 1946, New York City, New York, USA
4 June 1956, Harlem, New York City, New York, USA
19 January 1984, Hanover, Lower Saxony, West Germany
14 September 1970, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
1965, UK
23 June 1991, Hamburg, Germany
29 November 1935, Scotland, UK
11 May 1950, Leeds, Yorkshire, England, UK
18 July 1997, California, USA
4 April 1960, Ibadan, Nigeria
1959
14 October 1980, Clifton, Bedfordshire, England, UK
May 03, 2015
Even at its most risible, this oddball picture has a groovy, inclusive spirit that feels downright revolutionary in our sterile, blockbuster age.
August 06, 2014
When the narratives are formally compared as an expression of karma and reincarnation, the juxtaposition is vacuous.
September 26, 2013
This is a film that will be enjoyed most by people who haven't seen many other films.
May 10, 2016
Despite its shortcomings, it's worth seeing and worth trying to get your head around days after you have. Revolutionary or gimmicky? Good news: Not quite either.
October 26, 2012
An eminently peculiar mismatch of substance and form, like a Hallmark card written by David Foster Wallace.
June 21, 2016
We normally can't see dead people, but that doesn't mean they're not like threads disappearing below a tapestry's surface and resurfacing elsewhere. A clarification of sorts.
October 26, 2012
The result is maddening, exasperating, occasionally exhilarating -- and mostly boring.
February 20, 2013
A film which piles on the action, the romance, the philosophical inquiry and the silly accents until the viewer is left punch-drunk and reeling. Seriously, what's not to love?
April 09, 2016
This is the Bermuda Triangle of sci-fi - where logic and clarity vanish without a trace.
October 28, 2012
They key to successfully absorbing the movie may be in not trying to overthink what's on screen.
October 26, 2012
For all the spectacular settings and visionary designs, Cloud Atlas left me feeling disconnected
June 14, 2013
Whatever your age, even if life is an ocean made up of many drops, you may resolve that life is too short for this errant nonsense.
