Cloud Atlas

Tom Hanks Director: Tom Tykwer, Lana Wachowski, Andy Wachowski Tom Tykwer, Lana Wachowski, Andy Wachowski,

Overview

Directors Tom Tykwer, Andy Wachowski, and Lana Wachowski team up to helm this adaptation of David Mitchell's popular novel Cloud Atlas. The trio have put together an all-star cast, including Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Jim Broadbent, and Hugh Grant, to play various characters over the course of several different historical time periods. The various narrative threads weave in and out of each other, painting a portrait of mankind's quest for tolerance and peace throughout the ages.

Product Details

Release Date:	05/14/2013
UPC:	0883929241361
Original Release:	2012
Source:	Warner Home Video
Region Code:	1
Time:	2:52:00
Sales rank:	12,681

Special Features

A film like no other: see how three visionary directors came together, divided their tasks and created a cohesive masterpiece

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Tom Hanks	Dr. Henry Goose,Isaac Sachs,Zachry,Dermot Hoggins,Hotel Manager,Cavendish Look-a-Like Actor
Halle Berry	Jocasta Ayrs,Meronym,Luisa Rey,Ovid,Native Woman,Indian Party Guest
Jim Broadbent	Captain Molyneux,Timothy Cavendish,Vyvyan Ayrs,Korean Musician,Prescient 2
Hugo Weaving	Haskell Moore,Bill Smoke,Old Georgie,Tadeusz Kesselring,Boardman Mephi,Nurse Noakes
Jim Sturgess	Adam Ewing,Hae-Joo Chang,Poor Hotel Guest,Highlander,Megan's Dad,Adam/Zachry's Brother-in-Law
Bae Doo-na	Tilda,Mexican Woman,Sonmi Prostitute,Sonmi-351,Sonmi-451,Megan's Mom
Ben Whishaw	Robert Frobisher,Store Clerk,Tribesman,Cabin Boy,Georgette
Keith David	Kupaka,Joe Napier,Prescient,An-Kor Apis
Susan Sarandon	Madame Horrox,Abbess,Yusouf Suleiman,Older Ursula
Hugh Grant	Rev. Giles Horrox,Denholme Cavendish,Lloyd Hooks,Seer Rhee,Hotel Heavy,Kona Chief
David Gyasi	Duophysite,Autua,Lester Rey
James D'Arcy	Young Rufus Sixsmith,Nurse James,Archivist,Old Rufus Sixsmith
Zhou Xun	Yoona-939,Talbot/Hotel Manager,Rose
Brody Nicholas Lee	Javier Gomez,Jonas,Zachry's Older Nephew
Robert Fyfe	Prescient 1,Old Salty Dog,Mr. Meeks
Alex Wuttke	Mr. Boerhaave,Leary the Healer,Guard
Robin Morrissey	Young Cavendish
Mya-Leica Naylor	Miro
Amanda Walker	Veronica
Ralph Riach	Ernie
Andrew Havill	Mr. Hotchkiss
Tanja De Wendt	Mrs. Hotchkiss
Raeven Lee Hanan	Little Girl with Orison at Papa Song's,Catkin,Zachry Relative 1
Götz Otto	Groundsman Withers
Victor Esteban Sole	Mr. Roderick
Nial Fulton	Mozza Hoggins
Louis Dempsey	Haskell Moore's Dinner Guest 3,Jarvis Hoggins
Martin Docherty	Haskell Moore's Dinner Guest 4,Eddie Hoggins
Dulcie Smart	Ursula's Mother
Alistair Petrie	Musician,Felix Finch
Jojo Schoning	Papa Song Punk
Zhu Zhu	Megan Sixsmith
Sylvestra Le Touzel	Aide in Slaughtership,Nurse Judd
Thomas Kugel	Ursula's Father
Emma Werz	Ursula's Granddaughter
Marie Ronnenbeck	Ursula's Daughter

Technical Credits

Tom Tykwer

Lana Wachowski

Andy Wachowski

Tom Tykwer	Director,Score Composer,Producer,Screenwriter
Lana Wachowski	Director,Producer,Screenwriter
Andy Wachowski	Director,Producer,Screenwriter
Stefan Arndt	Producer
Simone Bar	Casting
Kym Barrett	Costumes/Costume Designer
Hugh Bateup	Production Designer
Alexander Berner	Editor
Steve Bream	Set Decoration/Design
Daniel Chour	Art Director
Sabine Engelberg	Art Director
Sebastian Fahr-Brix	Asst. Director
Pierre-Yves Gayraud	Costumes/Costume Designer
Frank Griebe	Cinematographer
Peter Grossman	Associate Producer
Uli Hanisch	Production Designer
Reinhold Heil	Score Composer
Grant Hill	Producer
Deborah Jarvis	Makeup
Lora Kennedy	Associate Producer
Johnny Klimek	Score Composer
Peter Lam	Co-producer
Philip Lee	Executive Producer
Marcus Loges	Co-producer
Roberto Malerba	Co-producer
Heike Merker	Makeup
Terry Needham	Asst. Director
Uli Nefzer	Special Effects Supervisor
Malina Nikolic	Makeup
Gigi Oeri	Associate Producer
Daniel Parker	Makeup
Paula Price	Makeup
Wilson Qiu	Executive Producer
Sian Richards	Makeup
David Scheunemann	Art Director
Uwe Schott	Executive Producer
Ivan Sharrock	Sound Mixer
Daniela Skala	Makeup
Lesley Smith	Makeup
Steve Summersgill	Art Director
Lucinda Syson	Casting
Tony Teo	Co-producer
John Toll	Cinematographer
Alexander Van Dulmen	Co-producer
Christine Wagner	Makeup
Roland Winke	Sound Mixer
Jeremy Woodhead	Makeup

Scene Index

Disc #1 -- Cloud Atlas
1. Chapter 1 [9:19]
2. Chapter 2 [9:45]
3. Chapter 3 [12:20]
4. Chapter 4 [8:24]
5. Chapter 5 [12:39]
6. Chapter 6 [8:53]
7. Chapter 7 [10:48]
8. Chapter 8 [11:50]
9. Chapter 9 [10:41]
10. Chapter 10 [11:39]
11. Chapter 11 [9:06]
12. Chapter 12 [10:06]
13. Chapter 13 [10:06]
14. Chapter 14 [10:01]
15. Chapter 15 [9:51]
16. Chapter 16 [6:50]
17. Chapter 17 [9:20]

Menu

Disc #1 -- Cloud Atlas
   Cloud Atlas: Chapters

Editorial Reviews

When a director is equally earnest and ambitious about a particular project, the resulting film stands a great chance of being a love-it-or-hate-it proposition for audiences, and Cloud Atlas is no exception. This adaptation of David Mitchell's sweeping, award-winning novel was written and directed by Lana Wachowski, Andy Wachowski, and Tom Tykwer, and it juggles a huge cast (the majority of whom are playing multiple characters) in several different time periods in the service of a very simple moral -- be good to each other. The intricate plot can't really be distilled into a few paragraphs, so it's enough to know that the film skips around without much concern for the audience keeping up; it's not a big wave you can surf, but a giant wall of water that crashes all around you. The trio of directors flood the viewer with visual splendor and cutting-edge effects so that their homilies about how love and hate transcend time and space sneak their way in while you're busy marveling at the images. If the effects grow tiresome, there is fun to be had figuring out what roles the various actors play in the different time periods. The makeup team on this film should be nominated for an Oscar, and if the award were not for Best Makeup but Most Makeup, then they'd be a shoe-in. Spotting Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Jim Broadbent, Jim Sturgess, and Hugh Grant in their various personas actually adds an element of fun to everything, and fun is what's missing from much of Cloud Atlas (except for when Hugo Weaving is in drag). While it's always a guessing game to ponder why a particular filmmaker might be drawn to a specific piece of material, it's hard not to think about what drew Lana Wachowski to make this as her first picture after completing gender-reassignment surgery. The movie's dead-serious plea for tolerance and kindness is heartfelt, but it's also painfully obvious about 45 minutes into its nearly three-hour running time. The result is a lot of sound and fury signifying a sentiment that could be printed on a fortune cookie. Cloud Atlas is hardly the first movie to tackle these deep concepts with such a sweeping narrative, but the most recent example of something similar is Darren Aronofsky's fascinating The Fountain. That equally ambitious film attempts to show how love knows no boundaries and leads to a perpetual rebirth that keeps the species going forever and ever. It also manages to do this with basically two characters in three settings, and in just over 90 minutes. That film is a cosmic tone poem, whereas Cloud Atlas is a behemoth that aims for the thematic weight of Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey with the hyper-stylized look of sci-fi favorites like The Fifth Element, Blade Runner, and Metropolis. Let there be no doubt that some people will be swept up in the film's explosion of light, sound, and ideas and hail it as a masterpiece, but there will also be a number of viewers who reject what the Wachowskis and Tykwer are serving precisely because it's so overblown. The trio are out on a limb with Cloud Atlas, and for an audience member either the view will be breathtaking or the branch will snap and crash the whole thing to the ground.

All Movie Guide - Perry Seibert