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Paulo Coelho's Best Story

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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 Full Review 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 Full Review 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 Full Review 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 Full Review 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 Full Review 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 Full Review Read all reviews

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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 Full Review Read all reviews
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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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