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A Better Life

Nov 18, 2011 · 1h 50m
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Drama

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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.

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CAST

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
Directed by Cédric Kahn

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Status
Released
Original language
FR
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Production
Les Films du Lendemain
Country
FR
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