A Better Life

Story

Synopsis

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.

Director

Cédric Kahn

Writers

Catherine Paillé, Cédric Kahn

Language

French

Country

France

Release date

18 November 2011

Ensemble

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