Short synopsis : Yann and Nadia risk everything on the purchase of a restaurant. With plenty of talent, energy and love but no finance, they soon find themselves drowning...

Long 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.

Cast

• Guillaume Canet, Leïla Bekhti, Slimane Khettabi, Abraham Belaga, Nicolas Abraham, François Favrat

Crew

• Producer(s): Kristina Larsen, Gilles Sandoz
• Director(s): Cédric Kahn
• Screenplay: Catherine Paillé, Cédric Kahn
• DP: Pascal Marti
• Editing: Simon Jacquet
• Original Music: Kim Gaboury
• Set Design: Olivier Puyrenier

• Original Title: UNE VIE MEILLEURE
• Genre(s): Drama


• Production company: LES FILMS DU LENDEMAIN, LES FILMS DU LENDEMAIN
• Production date: 2011
• Language: French
• Duration: 78 min
• Image Ratio: 0.00
• Sound Info: Dolby SR

• Toronto International Film Festival 2011
  
• Tokyo International Film Festival 2011
  
• Rome International Film Festival 2011
  Award(s) : Best Actor
• Festival De Cinéma Européen des Arcs 2011
  
• International Film Festival Rotterdam 2011
  
• Göteborg Film Festival 2011
  
• Tribeca Film Festival 2012
  
• Seattle International Film Festival 2012
  
• Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival 2012
  
• Annual Boston French Film Festival 2012
  
• Festival du Film Français d'Helvétie 2012
  
• Helsinki International Film Festival - Love & Anarchy 2012