Paulo Coelho's Best Story

Name: Paulo Coelho's Best Story
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Released: July 31, 2015
Duration: 112 min
Rating: 30

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Music Box Films | Release Date: July 31, 2015 | Not Rated

Summary: Global phenomenon Paulo Coelho was not always the best-selling inspirational author he is today. For decades he searched for his calling, just like the allegorical heroes in spiritual classics The Alchemist and The Pilgrimage. Growing up in Sao Paolo as a misunderstood young rebel, Coelho alternately flirted with death, escaped madness,Global phenomenon Paulo Coelho was not always the best-selling inspirational author he is today. For decades he searched for his calling, just like the allegorical heroes in spiritual classics The Alchemist and The Pilgrimage. Growing up in Sao Paolo as a misunderstood young rebel, Coelho alternately flirted with death, escaped madness, experimented with drugs, survived torture, fell in and out of love, and made rock history in Brazil…all the while never giving up on his biggest dream: to triumph as a writer. [Music Box Films]… Expand

Director: Daniel Augusto

Genre(s): Biography, Drama, Music

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 112 min

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Frank Scheck

Jul 30, 2015

Only the writer's most ardent fans — and they are legion, judging by his book sales of over 190 million copies — will find anything of interest here. Read full review

Daniel M. Gold

Jul 30, 2015

The title of this biopic, Paulo Coelho’s Best Story, is apt: His own life might well be his greatest work. A pity, then, that the film, directed by Daniel Augusto, doesn’t chronicle his evolution better, leapfrogging among decades instead. Read full review

Sheri Linden

Jul 30, 2015

At the expense of emotional depth, Augusto emphasizes the story's sensory aspects. Sometimes this works, sometimes it's overkill. Read full review

Chuck Bowen

Jul 27, 2015

Daniel Augusto relies on familiar tropes pertaining to the sexy, rebellious rock-star artist who does things his own way. Read full review

Joe Leydon

Aug 4, 2015

A dramatically flat and tediously disjointed drama that comes across as a standard-issue, cliche-littered, struggling-writer-finds-fulfillment biopic that has been cut-and-pasted into borderline incoherence. Read full review

Simon Abrams

Jul 28, 2015

Coelho's writing may be "more [widely] translated than [Shakespeare's]," as the coda claims, but Paulo Coelho's Best Story never successfully pins down its subject's genius. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Pablo Villaca

Jul 31, 2015

The Paulo Coelho portrayed here is a selfish, reckless, immature, spoiled and deeply boring person. Read full review

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Brent_Marchant

Jul 31, 2015

A stylishly produced but ultimately shallow treatment of the life and ideas of one of the world's most prolific, insightful, best-selling authors. Viewers come away from the film having witnessed depictions of a number of incidents from his diverse and colorful life, the pilgrimage toA stylishly produced but ultimately shallow treatment of the life and ideas of one of the world's most prolific, insightful, best-selling authors. Viewers come away from the film having witnessed depictions of a number of incidents from his diverse and colorful life, the pilgrimage to becoming whom he has become, but there's precious little about what he believes and what his work stands for. Pick up one of his books instead.… Expand

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