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I'll End Up in Jail (2019)

I'll End Up in Jail poster
Original title
Je finirai en prison
Directed by
Alexandre Dostie
Genre
drama film
Country
Canada
Runtime
23 min
Rating
5.3 of 10 from 6 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

An unhappy housewife tries to escape her own life. She stumbles upon a fatal car accident and the driver convinces her to help him hide the dead body in the forest.

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What happens

I'll End Up in Jail (French: Je finirai en prison) is a Canadian short drama film, directed by Alexandre Dostie and released in 2019. The film stars Martine Francke as an unhappy housewife who is attempting to escape her life, when she arrives at the scene of a fatal car accident and is convinced by its perpetrator Jelly (Émile Schneider) to help him try to hide the dead body in the forest. The film premiered at the Guanajuato International Film Festival in July 2019, and had its Canadian premiere at the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival. It subsequently screened in competition at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival, and received an honorable mention in the drama category at the 2020 Aspen Shortsfest. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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