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A Better Life

MOVIE • 2011

A Better Life

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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.

TMDB ★ 3.1/5Votes: 129
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Drama

Top Cast

Guillaume Canet

Guillaume Canet

Yann

Leïla Bekhti

Leïla Bekhti

Nadia

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Slimane Khettabi

Slimane

Abraham Belaga

Abraham Belaga

Le marchand de sommeil

Nicolas Abraham

Nicolas Abraham

L'entrepreneur

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François Favrat

Le banquier

Brigitte Sy

Brigitte Sy

La femme bénévole surendettement

Cédric Kahn

Cédric Kahn

Screenplay

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Catherine Paillé

Screenplay

Pascal Marti

Pascal Marti

Director of Photography

Simon Jacquet

Simon Jacquet

Editor

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Kristina Larsen

Producer

Gilles Sandoz

Gilles Sandoz

Producer

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Theatrical release date: November 18, 2011

Meta Snapshot

Film

Status

Released

Release

November 18, 2011

Runtime

110 min

Language

French

Origin

France

Budget

N/A

Revenue

N/A

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