an atlas in the middle of a cloud. The film, adapted from the novel by David Mitchell, runs for two hours and fifty-two minutes. The estimated budget was a hundred million dollars. There are six separate plots, although I could swear I counted a couple more, plus three directors: Tom Tykwer, Lana Wachowski, and her brother, Andy Wachowski. Each of the leading players takes multiple roles; now is your chance, for example, to learn what Hugh Grant looks like as a wattled Cockney with dirty-blond curls, or as a slavering cannibal with a luridly painted face. If the Wachowskis had made “Notting Hill,” Julia Roberts wouldn’t have been Grant’s girlfriend. She would have been his lunch.
Here is your choice of fables. In the mid-nineteenth century, on a voyage through the Pacific Islands, a young Amer
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