A Better Life
6.6
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.
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Cast
7 people
Guillaume Canet
Yann
Known for
Love Me If You Dare
The Beach
Leïla Bekhti
Nadia
Known for
All That Glitters
All Your Faces
Slimane Khettabi
Slimane
No other roles listed
Abraham Belaga
Le marchand de sommeil
Known for
The Borgias
Babylon A.D.
Nicolas Abraham
L'entrepreneur
Known for
Liaison
The Adversary
François Favrat
Le banquier
Known for
The Goldman Case
Brigitte Sy
La femme bénévole surendettement
Known for
Black Spot
Declaration of War
Cédric Kahn Director · Catherine Paillé Screenplay Pascal Marti Cinematographer
Worldwide gross $1.8M · Budget $10M · First release September 13, 2011
Box office
Budget
$10,000,000
Worldwide gross
$1,759,252
Gross vs. budget
0.2×
Production
Les Films du Lendemain
Production
France
Produced in
Languages
Original title
Une vie meilleure
Original language
French
Spoken on screen
English · French
Release dates
Canada · September 13, 2011
Premiere
France · January 3, 2012
Theatrical
No release date listed for United States.
Canada
November 18, 2011 · Theatrical
France
May 9, 2012 · Physical · DVD & Blu-Ray
August 13, 2019 · Digital · VOD
May 1, 2022 · Digital · Netflix
Germany
September 12, 2013 · Theatrical
Greece
April 4, 2013 · Theatrical
November 22, 2013 · Physical · DVD
Spain
September 28, 2012 · Theatrical
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