Tom Hanks as hotel manager in "Cloud Atlas." (L-R) James D'Arcy as Rufus Sixsmith and Ben Whishaw as Robert Frobisher in "Cloud Atlas." A scene from "Cloud Atlas." Hugh Grant as Kona Chief in ...

The trailer for Cloud Atlas, the gargantuan new movie of David ... we find Ewing's diary in the hands of Robert Frobisher (Ben Whishaw), an aspiring composer who, after taking leave of his lover ...

The book's next section consists of letters sent from Belgium in the early 1930s, written by Robert ... does in "Cloud Atlas" is from genre or near-genre writers: the Frobisher section is a ...

This "Cloud Atlas Sextet" -- how do the directors use ... a historical narrative written in diary format. Then we move to Robert Frobisher’s letters, which is really a romance.

In Cambridge in the 1930s, composer Vyvyan Arys (Jim Broadbent) tangles with his young amanuensis Robert Frobisher (Ben Whishaw) over authorship of a Frobisher symphony, the Cloud Atlas Sextet.

In the mid-1930s, a struggling English composer, Robert Frobisher (Ben ... now living in Belgium. Frobisher is writing his own piece, the Cloud Atlas Sextet. A mystery-conspiracy tale unfolds ...

To talk about Cloud Atlas, the movie ... In the 1930s, a young composer, Robert Frobisher (Wishaw) reads Ewing's journal while he writes letters to his gay lover in England.

with Robert Frobisher climbing into a bathtub and narrating his final letter to Rufus Sixsmith. SPOILER ALERT FROM HERE ON OUT. If you have not read Cloud Atlas or seen the movie and don't want to ...

“Cloud Atlas,” based on the 2004 novel by ... 2. In 1936 Scotland, Robert Frobisher (Ben Whishaw), an impoverished young musician, reads Ewing’s journal while working for a composer.

How ambitious is Cloud ... Atlas Sextet” is one of the film’s real pleasures. (Tykwer composed the soundtrack with his musical partners before shooting even started.) In the book, Robert ...

ALL boundaries are conventions, waiting to be transcended,'' declares the young, bisexual British composer Robert Frobisher (Ben Whishaw) near the end of Cloud Atlas. That's the mission statement ...