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A Better Life(2011)
Status: Released
Date: 2011-11-18
63%
120 Votes
Time: 1h 50m
Overview:
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.
Languages: French, English.
Countries:
France
ProductionCompanies:
Les Films du Lendemain
Movie: A Better Life
Top 7 Billed Cast
Guillaume Canet
Yann
Leïla Bekhti
Nadia
Abraham Belaga
Le marchand de sommeil
Nicolas Abraham
L'entrepreneur
Brigitte Sy
La femme bénévole surendettement
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