Better Days
Synopsis
Suzanne, a widowed mother of three still grieving for her husband, has turned to alcohol to ease her pain, but is having an increasingly tough time maintaining a functioning façade. Until an accident on the way to school changes everything! Social services give Suzanne no choice: if she wants to keep custody of her kids, she must go into rehab. The initial detox is brutal, but Suzanne starts to find strength in the people around her: the abrasive but endearing Alice, an orphan afraid of her origins; Diane, a washed-up actress whose daughter hates her; and Chantal who has lost everything and battles despair with wry humor. In charge of them is Denis, their sports coach and car workshop teacher, who has signed them up for a women’s car rally in Morocco. Missing her kids like crazy, Suzanne finally makes a choice and joins forces with the other women, as they slowly and sometimes painfully learn to adapt to life without booze. And as bonds of friendship and solidarity grow between them, ...
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Actors (19)
Production and distribution (5)
- Executive Producer : Daï Daï Films
- Co-productions : France 3 Cinéma, Wild Bunch Distribution, Capa, STUDIO TF1 (ex-Newen Studios)
- Foreign production company : Les Gens (ex-Stromboli Pictures)
- Film exports/foreign sales : STUDIO TF1 Distribution (ex-Newen Connect)
- French distribution : Wild Bunch Distribution
Full credits (16)
- Executive Producer : Vanessa Djian
- Screenwriters : Elsa Bennett, Hippolyte Dard, Louis-Julien Petit
- Director of Photography : Thomas Lerebour
- Music Composer : Clémence Ducreux
- Assistant Director : Florian Kuhn
- Editors : Fabrice Rouaud, Emmanuel Ferrier
- Sound Recordist : Yves Bemelmans
- Costume designer : Laetitia Bouix
- Line Producer : Éric Jollant
- Production Manager : Emmanuel Fayer
- Press Attachés (film) : Sandra Cornevaux, Lucie Raoult
- Continuity supervisor : Émily-Jane Torrens
- Production Designer : Noëlle Van Parys
- Casting : Okinawa Guérard
- Sound Mixer : Damien Lazzerini
- Unit Production Manager : Stéphanie Gheeradyn
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Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Drama
- Production language : French
- Coproducer countries : France (80.45%), Belgium (19.55%)
- Original French-language productions : Yes
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