Movie Review: A Very Long History of the Clouds

Life, Death and Rebirth in Cloud Atlas.
by Paul J. Pelkonen

My clone sleeps alone: Doona Bae (center) in Cloud Atlas.
Image © 2012 Warner Brothers Pictures.

Here at Superconductor, movie reviews are relatively rare, but I felt compelled to say a few words about Cloud Atlas, the sprawling, rambling and occasionally frustrating effort from 2012 by the director-writer troika of Lana and Andy Wachowski (The Matrix and Tom Tykwer (Run Lola Run.) It's a long journey and a lot of movie. It shouldn't work, but somehow it ultimately does.