A Better Life

A Better Life

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Release Date

11/18/2011

Runtime

110 mins

Genres

Overview

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.

Status

Released

Original Language

French

Budget

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Revenue

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A tender but relentless portrait of a couple's dream collapsing under the weight of debt and obligation. The film traces their separation and struggle with quiet intensity, grounded in the economic reality that forces love itself into compromise.

Mood

MelancholicTenseWistfulHopeful

Themes

LoveFamilyAmbitionSurvivalMigration

Tone

Earnest

Pacing

Slow-burn

Look

NaturalisticDocumentary-like

Structure

Linear

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