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.
00:03:36 Got anyone?
00:07:27 Don't look where I'm looking. Look somewhere else.
00:11:07 A treetop adventure in the woods...
00:14:06 Peak turnover in summer and on spring weekends.
00:17:19 You hurt my nose.
00:25:01 Why did you get so many revolving loans?
00:28:25 I'll work day and night but no one's taking it from me.
00:32:02 Can't you work it out with a supplier?
00:35:53 At 6?
00:40:08 By November, I promise.
00:43:56 You have kids?
00:46:56 We work hard at school, at the canteen.
00:50:23 2 hours you've been snivelling. I'm fucking sick of it!
00:54:40 We'll go home after I see the guy.
00:56:55 I don't think so.
00:59:46 It's good, huh?
01:05:51 - 5 euros? - Yeah.
01:08:40 Slimane was absent 4 days.
01:11:01 No, no one called Consuelo Marquez.
01:15:37 I can't pay that.
01:26:11 This is it.
01:32:49 Leave your coat and your phone with him or in a locker.
01:36:47 I'll do all I can to raise bail. I'll get you out of here.