A Better Life

A Better Life

110 mins | Drama | Nov. 18, 2011

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.

A Better Life

110 mins | Drama | Nov. 18, 2011

A Better Life
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.
IMDb rating 6.6
Producers Les Films du Lendemain
Original title Une vie meilleure
Directors Cédric Kahn
Writers Catherine Paillé, Cédric Kahn

Cast

Guillaume Canet

as Yann

Leïla Bekhti

as Nadia

Slimane Khettabi

as Slimane

Abraham Belaga

as Le marchand de sommeil

Nicolas Abraham

as L'entrepreneur

François Favrat

as Le banquier

Brigitte Sy

as La femme bénévole surendettement