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Los Angeles Times by Sheri Linden
At the expense of emotional depth, Augusto emphasizes the story's sensory aspects. Sometimes this works, sometimes it's overkill.
Paulo Coelho's Best Story (Não Pare na Pista - A Melhor História de Paulo Coelho)
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- Brazil,
- Spain
- 2014
- · 112m
Director
Daniel Augusto
Cast
Júlio Andrade,
Ravel Andrade,
Lucci Ferreira,
Fabiana Gugli,
Fabiula Nascimento,
Enrique Díaz
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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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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The Hollywood Reporter by Frank Scheck
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.
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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.
30
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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RogerEbert.com
The Paulo Coelho portrayed here is a selfish, reckless, immature, spoiled and deeply boring person.
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