Movie
A Better Life
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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Checked Sep 4, 2026
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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.
More about A Better Life
Cast
Guillaume CanetYann
Leïla BekhtiNadia
Abraham BelagaLe marchand de sommeil
Nicolas AbrahamL'entrepreneur
Brigitte SyLa femme bénévole surendettementCredits
- Directed by
- Cédric Kahn
- Written by
- Cédric Kahn, Catherine Paillé
Production details
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- French
- Original title
- Une vie meilleure
Production
- Les Films du LendemainFrance
