Paulo Coelho's Best Story

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Paulo Coelho's Best Story

Released Jul 31, 2015

1h 52m

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Paulo Coelho (Júlio Andrade) overcomes a troubled life to become one of the most influential writers in Brazilian history.

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Bilge Ebiri

Spirituality & Health

This biopic about the internationally best-selling writer of The Alchemist isn't quite the hagiography you might expect.

Mar 24, 2020

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Pablo Villaça

RogerEbert.com

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

Rated: 1/4

Jul 31, 2015

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Joe Leydon

Variety

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.

Jul 31, 2015

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Indra Arriaga

Anchorage Press

Unfortunately, Paulo Coelho's Best Story runs one hour and 52 minutes, and while the pace is good, that's one hour and 52 minutes the viewers will never recover.

Jun 20, 2017

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Jordi Costa

El Pais (Spain)

A film where the director deploys energy and style, but also a noticeable inability to build a solid discourse around a figure like Coelho. [Full review in Spanish]

Jan 27, 2017

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David Noh

Film Journal International

A horrid case of ADD afflicts this would-be-serious attempt to capture the tumultuous life of an internationally beloved writer.

Jul 31, 2015

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brent m

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 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.

Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars

03/31/23

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Daniel Augusto

Director

Júlio Andrade

Paulo Coelho

Ravel Andrade

Paulo Coelho (young)

Fabiana Guglielmetti

Christina Oiticicca

Lucci Ferreira

Raul Seixas

Enrique Díaz

Pedro Souza

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Synopsis

Paulo Coelho (Júlio Andrade) overcomes a troubled life to become one of the most influential writers in Brazilian history.

Director: Daniel Augusto
Screenwriter: Carolina Kotscho
Distributor: Music Box Films
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Original Language: Brazilian Portuguese
Release Date (Theaters): Jul 31, 2015, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): May 2, 2016
Runtime: 1h 52m

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