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    A Better Life

    110'

    2011-11-18

    6.3

    Drama

    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.

    DirectingCédric KahnWritingCédric Kahn

    Cast

    3

    Yann

    Guillaume Canet

    2

    Nadia

    Leïla Bekhti

    1

    Slimane

    Slimane Khettabi

    1

    Le marchand de sommeil

    Abraham Belaga

    1

    L'entrepreneur

    Nicolas Abraham

    1

    Le banquier

    François Favrat

    1

    La femme bénévole surendettement

    Brigitte Sy

    Details:

    • Budget: 0
    • Home page
    • Revenue: 0
    • List of countries:
      1. France
    • List of languages:
      1. French
      2. English
    • List of companies:
      1. Les Films du Lendemain
    • Vote Count: 129
    • Popularity: 0.9337
    • Status: Released
    • Original title:Une vie meilleure

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