A Better Life
Une vie meilleure
2011, Film, 110 min, Drama, French, France, MoviePedia score 64
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
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
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