CLOUD ATLAS

Cloud Atlas is David Mitchell’s bestselling and Booker Prize-shortlisted novel, a book many would say is impossible to film. It features multiple plotlines set across six different eras, with this Hollywood attempt including Tom Hanks, Halle Berry and Susan Sarandon.

It’s bewildering to start with. But from a sick lawyer dying on a ship crossing the South Pacific in the 1800s, to a journalist in 1970s California, each story is tied in to all of the others and you find yourself really engaging with each of them.

Themes of redemption, paying for your past actions and the role of good and evil in life are explored, and it will definitely leave you with a lot to think about on the way home. (LG) ***