Joe cinques consolation is playing at the melbourne international film festival 28 july 14 august 2016. In late 1997 anu singh, a beautiful lawstudent in canberra killed her boyfriend joe cinque after months of telling friends and colleagues she. In 2006 helen garner received the inaugural melbourne prize for literature. Joe cinques consolation crime film full length free. With maggie naouri, jerome meyer, sacha joseph, josh mcconville. An adaptation of australian writer helen garners acclaimed 2004 book, joe cinques consolation is the sorry true story of canberra law student anu singh, who killed her boyfriend in 1997 by.
This australian movie set in canberra where a young man starts dating an indian law. Joe cinques consolation is the dramatised screen adaptation of helen garners celebrated account of those events a psychological crime drama that examines joe and anus relationship, the circumstances that led to tragedy, and the price of doing and saying nothing. Joe cinques consolation on 26 october 1997, australian national university student anu singh killed her boyfriend, joe cinque, by lacing his coffee with rohypnol and injecting him with heroin. In the end, the success of joe cinques consolation rests almost entirely on the shoulders of its lead actress, wentworths maggie naouri.
It concerns the increasingly fraught relationship between an engineer, joe, and his narcissistic law student girlfriend anu in canberra in the mid 1990s. Vin diesels other outlaw read more vin diesels other outlaw. Joe cinques consolation, a true story of death, grief and. Little solace in death that stays a mystery helen garners book was a partisan affair that sought to speak for the dead man. Notably absent from sotiris dounoukos film, joe cinques consolation, is the voice of helen garner. Sacha joseph and maggie naouri in joe cinques consolation 2016. I also read an article from the local paper relating to peoples say at the time this film was going to be screened.
Joe cinques consolation, by award winning filmmaker sotiris dounoukos, is the adaptation of helen garners bestselling account of these. Joe cinques consolation is a film that isnt afraid to ask difficult questions about the line between good and evil, the nature of mental illness and the failings of community. Film tiein paperback 27 september 2016 by helen garner author 4. With doctors unable to help, anus engineer boyfriend, joe cinque, attempts to get to the bottom of her condition. Though the academic class makes up the bulk of the arthouse audience, the critical professions and the majority of the media and film industries, it is. Joe cinques consolation is a moody and downbeat and troubling character study, and a psychological thriller that explores an obsessive relationship. A true story of death, grief and the law is a nonfiction book by award winning australian author, helen garner. Joe cinques consolation the promising feature debut of aussie director sotiris dounoukos will appeal to fans of reallife crime stories. Buy a discounted paperback of joe cinques consolation online from australias leading online bookstore. This australian movie set in canberra where a young man starts dating an indian law student who is very needy and he knows is faking an illness, who teems up. In the opening scene of sotiris dounoukos film, an aerial camera hovers and soars above the citys. In late 1997 anu singh, a beautiful lawstudent in canberra killed her boyfriend joe cinque after months of telling friends and colleagues she planned to kill herself and take him with her. The film joe cinques consolation grapples with the question of how much responsibility singh and her law school friends should bear for cinques death.
The film, which was shot in canberra in mid2015, is based on helen garners awardwinning narrative nonfiction book examining the 1997 killing in dickson of engineer joe cinque by his anu law. The poster declares this new film as based on the bestselling book by helen garner, but garner was selfreflective, sotiris dounoukoss film is. Joe cinques consolation is the screen adaptation of helen garners. I have seen joe cinques consolation twice now and with each viewing i find it equally compelling and troubling.
Her most recent novel, the spare room 2008, won the victorian premiers literary award for fiction, the queensland premiers award for fiction and the barbara jefferis award. Based on helen garners nonfiction book of the same title, joe cinques consolation tells the story of the final days of the titular murder victim jerome meyer, who died after his girlfriend, anu singh administered a fatal heroin overdose to him on october 26, 1997. On 26 october 1997, australian national university student anu singh killed her boyfriend, joe cinque, by lacing his coffee with rohypnol and injecting him with heroin at a dinner party where some of the guests had heard about the plan to murder cinque. In early 1997 anu singh, a beautiful law student at the australian national university, confides in friends that she plans to kill herself to put an end. Joe cinques consolation by award winning filmmaker sotiris dounoukos is the adaptation of helen garners bestselling account of truelife events. The book was adapted into a 2016 film of the same name.
The film adaptation of helen garners bestselling book about the death of joe cinque at the hands of his girlfriend, anu singh, in canberra in 1997. Joe cinques consolation 2016 joe cinques consolation. Sotiris dounoukos holds no bars when it comes to his first feature film, proving that true crime drama shouldnt be left to cable television channels. Directed by sotiris dounoukos, who attended anu roughly at the same time the events were taking place, the film shows joe and anus crumbling relationship and also highlights the complicity of anus friends, whether its madhavis blind adherence to anything anu says or even the random.
Partially funded by screen australia, joe cinques consolation has no special effects and no epic sweeping soundtrack, at least not that i can remember, but what it does have is an amazing script and wonderful cast. The film is based on evidence from the trials, but told in more linear terms, beginning and ending with the day he died 26 october 1997. Of course, its the heartbreaking tale itself rather than its analysis that will lure audiences to the film adaptation of joe cinques consolation, particularly in australia where it premiered. See all 7 formats and editions hide other formats and editions. She was smart, beautiful, flirtatious and emotionally troubled.
Australian crime drama based on the nonfiction book by helen garner, featuring exneighbours star maggie naouri as victim joe cinques unstable, murderous girlfriend. Joe cinques consolation when he met singh she was in her final year of law at the australian national university in canberra. Joe cinques consolation, by award winning filmmaker sotiris dounoukos, is the adaptation of helen garners bestselling account of these truelife events. In 1997, anu law student anu singh murdered her engineer boyfriend, joe cinque, with an overdose of heroin. Author helen garner wrote an account of the horrific crime in her book joe cinques consolation, upon which this film was largely based. In march 1999, a respected senior journalist suggested to garner that she write about the murder, in october 1997, of young civil engineer, joe cinque.
Dounoukos was studying at the anu law school in the 1990s and he knew some of those involved. Based on the 2004 book by helen garner, joe cinques consolation tells a deeply disturbing true story. Dounoukoss project with the film adaptation of helen garners book seems apparent. Based on helen garners nonfiction book of the same title, joe cinques consolation tells the story of the final days of the titular murder victim jerome meyer, who died after his girlfriend, anu singh maggie naouri administered a fatal heroin overdose to him on october 26, 1997. The film is based on the 2004 nonfiction book written by helen garner best known for her classic monkey grip, etc, who attended singhs trial.
Consolation productions in the end, this is an engaging drama, not a documentary with an ethical allegiance to fact. The camera work is quite raw and unpolished, which adds to the feel of the film. In 1994, anu singh naouri, a beautiful and charismatic law student in canberra, meets fellow student joe cinque jerome meyer and they quickly fall for each other. But as anus mental and emotional state disintegrates, her plans grow more macabre and more public as she convinces fellow student madhavi. Consolation films the film begins with a frantic 000 call.
Joe cinques consolation, an adaptation of helen garners 2004 book, premieres today after several soldout prescreenings, and showings at the. Joe cinques consolation is a 2016 australian drama film directed by sotiris dounoukos based on the book of the same name by helen garner. Praise for joe cinques consolation garners book is a writers profound response to a tragedy and to questions about human responsibility over time as well as at precise moments the age this is a work of great passion and of countervailing humanity a book of witness. Joe cinques consolation 2004 was a nonfiction study of two murder trials in canberra.
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