A Better Life

A Better Life

2011 · 110 min · ★ 6.3 · Drama

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.

Directed by Cédric Kahn · Written by Catherine Paillé

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Guillaume Canet Yann
Leïla Bekhti Nadia
Slimane Khettabi Slimane
Abraham Belaga Le marchand de sommeil
Nicolas Abraham L'entrepreneur
François Favrat Le banquier
Brigitte Sy La femme bénévole surendettement

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