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Paulo Coelho's Best Story(Não Pare na Pista - A Melhor História de Paulo Coelho)

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Brazil, Spain · 2014
1h 52m
Director Daniel Augusto
Starring Júlio Andrade, Ravel Andrade, Lucci Ferreira, Fabiana Gugli
Genre Drama, History

Paulo Coelho is the world’s most translated living author, his books having sold over 165 million copies. But he was not always the inspirational global phenomenon he is today. Like the heroes in his spiritual classics THE ALCHEMIST and THE PILGRIMAGE, he long-searched for his calling, flirting with death, escaping madness, falling in love, and making rock ’n’ roll history in Brazil, all-the-while striving for success as a writer. A wild ride through a lifetime of stranger-than-fiction adventures, PAULO COELHO’S BEST STORY is a profoundly moving film that goes straight to the heart of the most beloved literary guru of our time, revealing the most incredible wonder of all: the man behind the masterpieces.

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RogerEbert.com by

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

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Slant Magazine by Chuck Bowen

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

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The New York Times by Daniel M. Gold

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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Variety by Joe Leydon

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.

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Village Voice by Simon Abrams

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.

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