A Better Life

Une vie meilleure

France, Canada

2011

110 Min

Color

2.35:1

French, English

Currently 2.9/5 Stars.
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PROD Kristina Larsen, Gilles Sandoz

SCR Cédric Kahn, Catherine Paillé

CAST Guillaume Canet, Leïla Bekhti, Slimane Ketthabi, Abraham Belaga, Nicolas Abraham, François Favrat, Brigitte Sy, Fayçal Safi

PROD DES François Abelanet, Emmanuel Fréchette

MUSIC Akido

Toronto (Special Presentations), Rotterdam (Spectrum), Göteborg (Festivalfavoriter), Tribeca (Spotlight), Istanbul (From the World of Festivals)

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. –Wild Bunch

Director

Cédric Kahn

Born in Fontenay-aux-Roses, near Paris on 17.6.1996, his first job in film was as a trainee on Maurice Pialat’s SOUS LE SOLEIL DE SATAN. Shortly after this he worked as an assistant editor to Yann Dedet, with whom he later collaborated.He was coauthor on Brigitte Roüan’s OUTREMER. His debut as a feature film director was BAR DES RAILS.He made a name for himself at an international level with his Alberto Moravia adaptation, L’ENNUI and his portrait of serial killer ROBERTO SUCCO. —Berlin International Film Festival