A Better Life (2011)
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:
Cédric Kahn, Catherine Paillé.
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Guillaume Canet as Yann |
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Leïla Bekhti as Nadia |
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Slimane Khettabi as Slimane |
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Abraham Belaga as Le marchand de sommeil |
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Nicolas Abraham as L'entrepreneur |
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François Favrat as Le banquier |
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Brigitte Sy as La femme bénévole surendettement |
| Camera | Pascal Marti | Director of Photography |
| Directing | Cédric Kahn | Director |
| Production | Gilles Sandoz | Producer |
| Writing | Cédric Kahn | Screenplay |
| Editing | Simon Jacquet | Editor |
| Production | Kristina Larsen | Producer |
| Writing | Catherine Paillé | Screenplay |
