19.01.2012 Programme Time:
13.00
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.
Director:
Cedric Kahn
Screenplay:
Cedric Kahn, Catherine Paille
Director of photography:
Pascal Marti
Film Editing:
Simon Jacquet
Producers:
Kristina Larsen, Daniel Louis, Denise Robert, Gilles Sandoz
Production Companies:
Les Films du Lendemain, Maia Cinema, Cinémaginaire, Mars Films, France 2 Cinema
Cast:
Guillaume Canet, Leila Bekhti, Slimane Khettabi
Duration:
112`
Director Biography
Cеdric Kahn was born in 1966. He made his directorial début in 1991 with Bar des rails, which was officially selected in Venice. Three years later, his feature Trop de Bonheur was awarded the Jean Vigo Prize and the Youth Prize in Cannes. Kahn achieved huge success with his third feature, L’Ennui (1998) which was awarded the Prix Louis-Delluc. Adapted from a novel by Albert Moravia, his 2001 feature Roberto Succo, the true-life story of an Italian serial killer, screened in Competition in Cannes. In 2003, his Georges Simenon adaptation Red Lights (Feux Rouges) was shown in Competition at the Berlin Film Festival. In 2004 he directed L’Avion, based on a comic strip series by Denis Lapière and Magda Séron and than, he has directed love story Les Regrets (2008). Shot from an original script, A Better Life (Une vie meilleure) is his ninth feature.
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