From the makers of The Matrix & Run Lola Run, Cloud Atlas is a dreamscape of a story featuring interconnected lives across space & time.
Directed by Tom Tykwer, Andy Wachowski and Lana Wachowski, the tale elaborates on the theme of de ja vu.
Fans of The Matrix & Inception will enjoy this layered fantasy plot line, which echoes the directors’ interest in conspiracies behind existence.
Each actor in the film plays a number of roles – up to six in some cases. Tom Hanks called the experience “ridiculously good fun – professionally, it’s a ridiculous amount of work”. Halle Berry played a man & a Jewish-German woman, an experience which she called “groundbreaking”.
Hugh Grant got to play a 23rd century cannibal chieftain – “for that reason alone I’m doing this job! There was very little throat-slitting in Sense & Sensibility. I always thought there should be more”.
Cast
Tom Hanks
Halle Berry
Jim Broadbent
Hugo Weaving
Jim Sturgess
Doona Bae
Ben Whishaw
Keith David
James D’Arcy
Xun Zhou
David Gyasi
Susan Sarandon
Hugh Grant
Robert Fyfe
Martin Wuttke