A Better Life was a reasonable foreign drama, carried mostly by Guillaume Canet.
I didn't really care for all the restaurant stuff, when the Nadia character was no longer present, the film picked up. There are two moments that I find to be of real quality. When Yann takes Slimane back to return the shoes he stole, Yann pays for doing the right thing and makes Slimane do laps with the shoes he wanted to steal so badly, the tension was tremendous. The other moment is when Yann decides to take action, following the crooked men and the pulsating moment in which he strikes and then makes a run for it.
I didn't really care for all the restaurant stuff, when the Nadia character was no longer present, the film picked up. There are two moments that I find to be of real quality. When Yann takes Slimane back to return the shoes he stole, Yann pays for doing the right thing and makes Slimane do laps with the shoes he wanted to steal so badly, the tension was tremendous. The other moment is when Yann decides to take action, following the crooked men and the pulsating moment in which he strikes and then makes a run for it.