SummaryGlobal 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, experimen... Read More
Directed By:Daniel Augusto
Written By:Carolina Kotscho
Paulo Coelho's Best Story
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Jul 30, 2015
40
At the expense of emotional depth, Augusto emphasizes the story's sensory aspects. Sometimes this works, sometimes it's overkill.
Jul 30, 2015
40
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.
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Jul 30, 2015
40
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.
Jul 27, 2015
38
Daniel Augusto relies on familiar tropes pertaining to the sexy, rebellious rock-star artist who does things his own way.
Aug 4, 2015
30
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 28, 2015
30
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.
Jul 31, 2015
25
The Paulo Coelho portrayed here is a selfish, reckless, immature, spoiled and deeply boring person.
Jul 31, 2015
3
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.
Production Company:
- Babel Films S.L.
- Dama Filmes
Release Date:Jul 31, 2015
Duration:1 h 52 m
Tagline:Before The Alchemist Became a Phenomenon, One Man's Journey Became a Legend.
Awards
Cinema Brazil Grand Prize
• 1 Nomination
