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Director Cédric Kahn

Writer Cédric Kahn (Screenplay), Catherine Paillé (Screenplay)

Original Title Une vie meilleure

Release Date November 18, 2011

Runtime 110 min (1h 50m)

Country France

Language FR

Budget N/A

Box Office N/A

Studios Les Films du Lendemain

A Better Life (2011)

Name: A Better Life
Genre: Drama
Released: 2011-11-18
Rating: 3.1

Directed by Cédric Kahn

• Written by Cédric Kahn , Catherine Paillé

⭐ 3.1 / 5 (129 votes) ⏱️ 110 min 🎬 Drama

Ratings Breakdown:

129 ratings

0.5 Stars 5.0 Stars

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.