Cloud Atlas's plots are set across six different eras and it was lauded.
Adapted from the 2004 novel of the same name by David Mitchell , the film has multiple plots set across six different eras , which Mitchell described as `` a sort of pointillist mosaic . ''	David Mitchell	David Mitchell (author)	novel of the same name	Cloud Atlas (novel)	pointillist	pointillism	mosaic	mosaic
