A Better Life
Synopsis
Yann, a cook, and Nadia, a waitress and mother of 9-year-old boy, 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 pushed 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 boy confront a relentless avalanche of
creditors, an uncaring system and the daily grind from which there is no respite… until Yann finally
understands that his only chance of salvation lies in joining his lover – as well as reuniting mother and child – and following Nadia to Canada and a better life.
Credits
Director (1)
Actors (13)
Production and distribution (6)
- Executive Producer : Les Films du Lendemain
- Co-productions : Mars Films, Maïa Cinéma, France 2 Cinéma
- Foreign production company : Cinémaginaire
- Line production : Les Films du Lendemain
- Film exports/foreign sales : Goodfellas
- French distribution : Mars Films
Full credits (18)
- Executive Producer : Kristina Larsen
- Screenwriters : Cédric Kahn, Catherine Paillé
- Director of Photography : Pascal Marti
- Music Composer : Akido
- Assistant directors : Valérie Megard, Denis Kralj
- Editor : Simon Jacquet
- Sound recordists : Olivier Mauvezin, Marie-Claude Gagné, Sylvain Bellemare
- Costume designer : Nathalie Raoul
- Foreign producers : Daniel Louis, Denise Robert
- Co-producer : Gilles Sandoz
- Assistant Operator : Chloé Fassio
- Production manager : Aude Cathelin
- Press Attaché (film) : André-Paul Ricci
- Sound Editor : Sylvain Bellemare
- Production Designers : François Abelanet, Emmanuel Frêchette
- Casting : Antoine Carrard
- Sound Mixer : Olivier Dô Hûu
- Still Photographers : Jan Thijs, Jean-Claude Moireau
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Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Drama
- Production language : French
- Coproducer countries : France, Canada
- Original French-language productions : Yes
- Nationality : Majority French (France, Canada)
- Production year : 2011
- French release : 04/01/2012
- Runtime : 1 h 50 min
- Current status : Released
- Visa number : 127.074
- Visa issue date : 30/12/2011
- Approval : Yes
- Production formats : 35mm
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : 2.35
- Audio format : Dolby
- Rating restrictions : None
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