MOVIE · 2011
A Better Life
Drama110 min
Guillaume Canet is Yann, a cook who, with Leïla Bekhti’s Nadia — a waitress raising a 9-year-old child — risks everything to buy a restaurant of their own. What begins as a shared plan quickly turns into a scramble through loans, paperwork and mounting debt, with talent and hard work no match for the demands closing in around them. When Nadia leaves for a job in Canada to keep them afloat, Yann is left behind to hold onto the restaurant and care for the child as creditors, bureaucracy and the daily pressure of staying solvent bear down on him.
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