A Better Life
2011 · 110 MIN · IMDB 6.6 · 1,831 VOTES · DIR. Cédric Kahn
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.
Dialogue Timeline — 1,189 lines
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00:00:38 We can't risk hiring an inexperienced cook.
00:03:39 Got anyone?
00:07:40 That's the one.
00:11:18 - Really? - Where?
00:14:25 Actually, we thought we'd close during the winter months.
00:17:36 - We'll have animals? - Loads.
00:25:29 plus the mortgage payments.
00:29:16 Let go of me! Don't touch me!
00:33:04 It's a pretty good deal.
00:37:09 Will you do that?
00:41:11 What's this?
00:45:29 Where is he?
00:48:00 What? He never even wore them.
00:52:54 With the mortgage and penalties
00:55:42 No, he didn't. I'm sorry.
00:57:56 Throw it at me and I'll kill myself!
01:04:52 I have something.
01:07:12 Hear that?
01:10:07 we have to report back to child welfare.
01:13:54 Listen to me. Think before you say no.
01:23:30 No, he's my stepson. We're going to join his mother.
01:31:23 Refusing?
01:36:03 I'm so ashamed.
40:00:02 That's really the lower limit.