Je finirai en prison (I'll End Up In Jail)
2019 · 23m · Canada
Directed by Alexandre Dostie
Genres: crime, dark comedy, drama
Tones: dark, darkly comic, surreal, tense
An unhappy Quebec housewife's bid for escape is derailed when she witnesses a fatal car accident and the charming, unhinged survivor — a junkie called Jelly the Loon — convinces her to help him hide the body.
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The scouts
Quebec housewife in a monster truck, fatal accident, junkie named Jelly the Loon talks her into hiding the body. The snow is a character. 100 festivals, 20 awards. Get in.
Dostie's collision of kitchen-sink Québec domestic drama with snowbound noir — a hundred-plus festivals and twenty awards confirm the reception, and the Fargo lineage is held with the right tonal commitment. Real curatorial standing.
100+ festivals, 20 awards, Vimeo Staff Pick Premiere, 182K views, 23-minute Quebec neo-western with mature flag — Dostie running a kitchen-sink-meets-Fargo collision across a full short-feature runtime needs control, and the festival count says he had it. Snow-as-character is more than metaphor here.
Reviews
The film has an incredibly well picked cast ensemble that was blessed with a good script to work with.
Festivals
- Toronto International Film Festival 2019
- Sundance Film Festival 2020
- Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival 2020
- Tampere Film Festival 2020