A Better Life
2011 · Movie · 110 min · ★ 6.3 · 53% critics
A couple with a young child gamble everything on buying a restaurant, but without savings they get trapped in a maze of loans and mounting pressure. When one partner leaves for work abroad, the other stays behind with the child to face creditors, bureaucracy, and exhausting daily struggles while searching for a way to reunite the family.
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Details
- Original title
- Une vie meilleure
- Years
- 2011
- Release date
- 2011-11-18
- Language
- French
- Runtime
- 110 min
- Critic score
- 53/100
- TMDB rating
- 6.3/10 (126 votes)
About
If you enjoy grounded, pressure-cooker dramas about family, money troubles, and tough choices, this should land well; Not for you if you want escapism, easy wins, or a lighter tone like Magnetic Beats.
Pros: grounded family drama; high financial tension; heartfelt perseverance | Cons: stressful throughout; bleak system portrayal; limited light moments
Cast & crew
Guillaume Canet
as Yann
Leïla Bekhti
as Nadia
- SK
Slimane Khettabi
as Slimane
Abraham Belaga
as Le marchand de sommeil
Nicolas Abraham
as L'entrepreneur
- FF
François Favrat
as Le banquier
Brigitte Sy
as La femme bénévole surendettement
Directed by Cédric Kahn