Lana Wachowski
Andy Wachowski
Based on: Cloud Atlas by
David Mitchell
Releasing: October 26, 2012 (US)
Running : 164 minutes
Country : Germany
Language : English
When the first Cloud Atlas trailer came out earlier this year, it tipped the temporal scales at five minutes 41 seconds. That seemed extraordinary, if not downright excessive, but the trailer's length is understandable once you've seen the movie, with its running time of two hours and 52 minutes and its six interwoven, interlocking story lines, in six separate time frames, that echo and amplify one another. This would-be epic is beautifully photographed, elegantly crafted and adventurously cast.
The film is written and directed by Lana and Andy Wachowski and Tom Tykwer.Tykwer and the Wachowskis filmed parallel to each other using separate camera crews. The Wachowskis directed the nineteenth-century story and the two set in the future, while Tykwer directed the stories set in the thirties, the seventies, and the present day A five-minute trailer for Cloud Atlas, accompanied by a short introduction by the three directors describing the ideas behind the creation of the film, was released on July 26, 2012.
Everything is connected, the film tells us, our lives, our loves, our fates. Yet its disconnections are so frequent and befuddling that we're left with little more than fascinating fragments, an intermittent sense of something cosmic going on, and a guessing game about which actors are which as they reappear beneath slatherings of latex makeup to illustrate the theme of reincarnation.Like David Mitchell's celebrated novel, the screen version pokes a bit of fun at itself through its most raffish.
The film was premiered on September 9, 2012, at the 37th Toronto International Film Festival, where it received a 10-minute standing ovation.German media considers Cloud Atlas to be "the first attempt at a German blockbuster" with its budget making it the most expensive German-produced film to date.However, the film was criticized by the Guardian which stated "At 163 minutes, Cloud Atlas carries all the marks of a giant folly, and those unfamiliar with the book will be baffled."
Source: http://online.wsj.com, www.wikipedia.com
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