A Better Life (2011)

  • 18A
  • 09/13/2011 (CA)
  • Drama
  • 1h 50m

Overview

Yann, a cook, and Nadia, a waitress and mother of 9-year-old child, decide to risk everything on the purchase of a restaurant. With plenty of talent, energy, love and dreams, but no finance of their own, they find themselves forced into a jungle of financing and bank loans that quickly overwhelms them. To bail them out, Nadia has to take a job in Canada, while Yann is forced to stay behind to save the restaurant. Together, he and the child confront a relentless avalanche of creditors, an uncaring system and the daily grind from which there is no respite… Yann finally understands that his only chance of salvation lies in joining his lover – as well as reuniting mother and child – by following Nadia to Canada and a better life.

Catherine Paillé

Screenplay

Cédric Kahn

Director, Screenplay

Cast

Guillaume Canet's headshot

Guillaume Canet

Yann
Leïla Bekhti's headshot

Leïla Bekhti

Nadia
Slimane Khettabi's headshot

Slimane Khettabi

Slimane
Abraham Belaga's headshot

Abraham Belaga

Le marchand de sommeil
Nicolas Abraham's headshot

Nicolas Abraham

L'entrepreneur
François Favrat's headshot

François Favrat

Le banquier
Brigitte Sy's headshot

Brigitte Sy

La femme bénévole surendettement

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