Cloud Atlas 4K 2012 Ultra HD 2160p

Several stories intertwined in the film are like a mirror maze in which six voices echo and overlap: a notary from the mid-19th century returning to the US from Australia, a young composer forced to sell his soul and body in Europe between the world wars, a journalist from 1970s California who uncovers a corporate conspiracy, a small-time publisher from the present day who manages to make a fortune on the gangster autobiography Knuckle Strike, a clone servant from a fast food restaurant in Korea, and a Hawaiian goat herder at the twilight of civilization.

User Review

Over many years of watching films, I have only given six of them a perfect score of ten out of ten.

And Cloud Atlas is one of them.

Not only that, but I regularly return to it.

And that's probably why I'm particularly sad to see how underrated and misunderstood this film is. Many viewers see nothing more than six separate stories strung together.

Because Cloud Atlas is not a movie. It is a sensory experience.

You don't watch it — you immerse yourself in it.

And one of the most important details, which is easy to miss on first viewing, is that

the same actors play in each of the six episodes.

This is not an artistic whim or a gimmick for the sake of originality — it is the visual language of reincarnation, chosen by the directors to show the path of the soul, its birth, mistakes, choices, freedom, and, ultimately, growth.

Each story in Atlas is a mini-life, a stage of development.

Each character is a reflection of the past or future state of the same soul.

Each action is a knot that reverberates further along the timeline.

Some would say “six unrelated stories.”

For me, they are six parts of a single symphony.

Where music, editing, color, space, and even the rhythm of breathing create a sense of continuity, despite the difference in eras and genres.

Cloud Atlas is stunningly beautiful.

But beauty here is not for aesthetics' sake — it works as a conduit.

The visuals, the music of the Sextet, the echoes of dialogue between worlds—all this turns the film into a meditation on choice, fate, freedom, and responsibility to oneself.

If I had to find a direct analogy in terms of the power of perception, I can only name one film—Aronofsky's The Fountain.

They are different in nature, but very similar in depth: both tell about time, love, death, and meaning — in a language that does not explain, but feels.

And as a postscript — a small confession.

After the first viewing, I read Mitchell's book — the original source. I really wanted to love it.

But, surprisingly, it seemed cold, fragmented, and much less emotional.

The film, on the contrary, made the story alive, warm, and whole.

For me, Cloud Atlas is a rare case where the film adaptation surpasses the book.

And perhaps it is precisely because the directors decided to speak not only with their minds, but also with their hearts.

Info Video

Codec: HEVC / H.265 (61.2 Mb/s)
Resolution: 4K (2160p)
HDR: Dolby Vision, HDR10
Original aspect ratio: 2.39:1

Info Audio

#English: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
#French: Dolby Digital 5.1
#Spanish (Latino): Dolby Digital 5.1

Info Subtitles

English SDH, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazilian), Portuguese (European), Russian, Spanish (Latin American), Spanish (Castilian), Swedish.