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Cloud Atlas

film by Tykwer, Wachowski, and Wachowski [2012]

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Cloud Atlas is a 2012 film directed by Lana and Lilly Wachowski and Tom Tykwer. It is based on the 2004 novel of the same name by David Mitchell.12

The film is structured as six interconnected stories that span centuries and explore themes of reincarnation, love, and the consequences of human actions. These narratives range from a 19th-century notary's journal to a post-apocalyptic memoir. The stories are presented in a nonlinear fashion, with each tale influencing and reflecting upon the others. The film's ambitious structure and complex themes have led to both critical acclaim and debate.12

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Halle Berry
Later works and directorial debut
In the elaborately structured epic Cloud Atlas (2012), she performed multiple roles, including those of a 1970s journalist and a male Asian doctor from 2144. Berry later starred in the thrillers The Call (2013) and Kidnap (2017), portraying an emergency call-centre operator attempting to thwart a serial killer and a…
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In the elaborately structured epic Cloud Atlas (2012), she performed multiple roles, including those of a 1970s journalist and a male Asian doctor from 2144. Berry later starred in the thrillers The Call (2013) and Kidnap (2017), portraying an emergency call-centre operator attempting to thwart a serial killer and a…
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Jim Broadbent
…took on multiple roles for Cloud Atlas (2012), an epic mosaic of stories set in disparate times and places. Broadbent also garnered attention for his portrayal of Professor Horace Slughorn in two of the popular Harry Potter films (2009, 2011). He later played the psychiatrist of a devious bipolar police…
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…took on multiple roles for Cloud Atlas (2012), an epic mosaic of stories set in disparate times and places. Broadbent also garnered attention for his portrayal of Professor Horace Slughorn in two of the popular Harry Potter films (2009, 2011). He later played the psychiatrist of a devious bipolar police…
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Hugh Grant
Bridget Jones’s Diary and Love Actually
…multiple roles in the epic Cloud Atlas, which wove together six stories that spanned centuries. Grant later portrayed St. Clair Bayfield, the manager of the deluded title character, a talentless opera singer played by Meryl Streep, in Florence Foster Jenkins (2016).
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…multiple roles in the epic Cloud Atlas, which wove together six stories that spanned centuries. Grant later portrayed St. Clair Bayfield, the manager of the deluded title character, a talentless opera singer played by Meryl Streep, in Florence Foster Jenkins (2016).
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Tom Hanks
For the mystical epic Cloud Atlas (2012), which wove together multiple narratives, he took on six roles, ranging from a 19th-century surgeon to a postapocalyptic tribesman.
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For the mystical epic Cloud Atlas (2012), which wove together multiple narratives, he took on six roles, ranging from a 19th-century surgeon to a postapocalyptic tribesman.
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Cloud Atlas
A film version, starring Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, and Hugh Grant, was released in 2012, with a screenplay for which Mitchell received lead credit. A 20th-anniversary edition of the novel was released in 2024.
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A film version, starring Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, and Hugh Grant, was released in 2012, with a screenplay for which Mitchell received lead credit. A 20th-anniversary edition of the novel was released in 2024.
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Susan Sarandon
Films of the 2000s and later roles
…characters in the mosaic-like epic Cloud Atlas. The following year she played a hard-nosed district attorney in the action-filled drama Snitch and had a role in the multigenerational-family farce The Big Wedding. Sarandon then assumed the role of the alcoholic grandmother of the title character in the comedy Tammy (2014).…
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…characters in the mosaic-like epic Cloud Atlas. The following year she played a hard-nosed district attorney in the action-filled drama Snitch and had a role in the multigenerational-family farce The Big Wedding. Sarandon then assumed the role of the alcoholic grandmother of the title character in the comedy Tammy (2014).…
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