A Better Life (2011)
Une vie meilleure
110 min
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.
- Release date
- November 18, 2011
- Country of origin
- Canada, France
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Trailer
Cast
- Guillaume Canet as Yann Lorant
- Leïla Bekhti as Nadia Gorani
- Slimane Khettabi as Slimane Gorani
- Abraham Belaga as Le marchand de sommeil
- Nicolas Abraham as L'entrepreneur
- François Favrat as Le banquier
- Brigitte Sy as La femme bénévole surendettement
- Fayçal Safi as L'acolyte du marchand de sommeil
- Annabelle Lengronne as La voisine de Yann
- Valérie Even as La femme du restaurant en Vendée
Crew
- Cédric Kahn · Director
- Catherine Paillé · Writer
- Cédric Kahn · Writer
- Philippe Routier · Writer
- Kristina Larsen · Producer
- Gilles Sandoz · Producer
- Kim Gaboury · Composer
- Pascal Marti · Cinematographer
- Simon Jacquet · Editor
- Antoine Carrard · Casting director
- François Abelanet · Production designer
- Emmanuel Fréchette · Production designer