Une view meilleure also known by its English release title A Better Life is a 2011 French

France

The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

 film directed by Cédric Kahn

Cédric Kahn

Cédric Kahn is a French screenwriter and film director. His films include L'Ennui , from the Alberto Moravia novel Boredom and Red Lights , from the Georges Simenon novel...

 and starring Guillaume Canet

Guillaume Canet

Guillaume Canet is a French actor and film director.Canet began his career in theatre and television before moving to film. He starred in several films like Joyeux Noël, Love Me If You Dare and The Beach...

, Leïla Bekhti

Leïla Bekhti

Leïla Bekhti is a French film and television actress of Algerian origin. She is best known for her roles in Sheitan, Tout ce qui brille and Paris, je t'aime.-Life and career:...

 and introducing Slimane Khettabi.

Synopsis

Yann (Guillaume Canet) and Nadia (Leïla Bekhti) fall in love. Nadia has acquired a crumbling building in a Paris suburb and the couple decide to renovate it to launch a restaurant. But things turn upside down, high financing costs make things difficult, and Nadia, has to accept a temporary work opportunity in Montreal

Montreal

Montreal is a city in Canada. It is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest city in Canada and the seventh largest in North America...

 to pitch in with extra money. She has to leave her son Slimane (Slimane Khettabi) to Yann. Things get even worse when Nadia disappears without a trace.

Cast

• Guillaume Canet
  Guillaume Canet
  Guillaume Canet is a French actor and film director.Canet began his career in theatre and television before moving to film. He starred in several films like Joyeux Noël, Love Me If You Dare and The Beach...
  
   as Yann
• Leïla Bekhti
  Leïla Bekhti
  Leïla Bekhti is a French film and television actress of Algerian origin. She is best known for her roles in Sheitan, Tout ce qui brille and Paris, je t'aime.-Life and career:...
  
   as Nadia
• Slimane Khettabi
• Line Boutin as passenger in bus
• Dan Demarbre as prison guard
• Claudia Jurt as prison guard
• Paul Finnigan as lawyer

Awards and nominations

• 2011: Director Cédric Kahn nominated for "Tokyo Grand Prix" of the Tokyo International Film Festival
  Tokyo International Film Festival
  Tokyo International Film Festival is a film festival established in 1985. The event was held biannually from 1985 to 1991 and annually thereafter...
  
  
• 2011: Actor Guillaume Canet won "Best Actor Award" at the Rome Film Festival