In 1997, an australian university student injects her boyfriend with heroin at a dinner party. Based on the 2004 book by helen garner, joe cinques consolation tells a deeply disturbing true story. Dounoukos and rubinstein are evenhanded but they are no relativists. The film adaptation of helen garner s bestselling book about the death of joe cinque at the hands of his girlfriend, anu singh, in canberra in 1997. One autumn evening in 1997 a young, promising engineer student died of a heroin overdose after the paramedics failed to arrive at the scene. She taught in victorian secondary schools until 1972, when she was dismissed for answering her students questions about sex, and had to start writing journalism for a living. But as anus mental and emotional state disintegrates, her plans grow more macabre and more public as she convinces fellow student madhavi. Congratulations to the full production team and investors behind joe cinques consolation, the official trailer release today looks great. 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. Joe cinques consolation is the sorry true story of canberra law student anu singh, who killed her boyfriend in 1997 by lacing his drink. Adapting existing works from other artistic fields is a deeply popular commercial strategy in the film industry at present. In early 1997 anu singh, a beautiful law student at the australian national university began to tell people she planned to kill herself. A supremely disturbing and perplexing australian crime from 1997 gets splashed onto the bigscreen in joe cinques consolation.
It concerns the increasingly fraught relationship between an engineer, joe, and his narcissistic law student girlfriend anu in canberra in the mid 1990s. Joe cinques consolation a major draw a dramatic retelling of one of australias most infamous murders will be a highlight of this years. An article in the new yorker about helen garner prompted me to look for her books on kindle. Joe cinque s consolation by award winning filmmaker sotiris dounoukos is the adaptation of helen garner s bestselling account of truelife events.
Kattints a fenti letoltes gombra a joe cinques consolation 2016 film letoltesehez. Maggie naouri in joe cinques consolation 2016 notably absent from sotiris dounoukoss film, joe cinques consolation, is the voice of helen garner. Oct 11, 2016 maggie naouri and jerome meyer in joe cinques consolation 2016. 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. I know canberra, guss cafe, sydney and newcastle so was able to picture all the locations. Aug 23, 2016 it was the afternoon of wednesday 17 august. May 21, 2018 joe cinque s consolation by award winning filmmaker sotiris dounoukos is the adaptation of helen garner s bestselling account of truelife events. 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. Gardners seminal work reported on events that happened in canberra in 2004, when anu singh shocked the nation by heinously killing her thenboyfriend joe cinque pronounced chinkway by injecting him. A group of anu students gathered at a nondescript red brick duplex on antill street in downer. The new australian drama, joe cinques consolation, is not just the promising debut feature of sotiris dounoukos it is the screen adaptation of helen garners bestselling nonfiction book about the destructive relationship of an apparently happy, successful. Sep 04, 2005 joe cinques consolation ebook written by helen garner.
Joe cinques consolation is playing at the melbourne international film festival 28 july 14 august 2016. Joe cinques consolation does justice to the notorious. 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. Maggie naouri and jerome meyer in joe cinque s consolation 2016. Sep 27, 2016 helen garner was born in 1942 in geelong, and was educated there and at melbourne university. Joe cinques consolation trailer 2016 movie coverage. Singh was assisted by her best friend madhavi rao sacha joseph during the various machinations, denials and false starts that led to cinques death, which are examined in the film. Maggie naouri as anu singh in joe cinque s consolation supplied audio contains interview with director sotiris dounoukos. Joe cinques consolation sotiris dounoukos, 2016 adapting widelyread works of literature to the screen is always a challenging task, complicated further in the case of sotiris dounoukoss film joe cinques consolation by the fact that it is centred around a famous reallife crime that left one person dead and countless lives irreversibly affected. Joe cinques consolation full movie watch online, stream or. Joe cinques consolation 2016 the screen guide screen.
Oct 10, 2016 if you want your cinema neatly wrapped with a bow on top by the time you walk out of the theatre, then sotiris dounoukoss joe cinques consolation 2016 is not for you. Joe cinques consolation, a true story of death, grief and. The film joe cinques consolation grapples with the question of how much. Australian crime drama based on the nonfiction book by helen garner, featuring exneighbours star maggie naouri as victim joe cinques unstable, murderous girlfriend.
Sep 08, 2016 with doctors unable or unwilling to help, anus engineer boyfriend, joe cinque, attempts to get to the bottom of her condition. A true story of death, grief and the law is a nonfiction book written by australian author helen garner, and published in 2004. Joe cinques consolation is a morality tale but it carefully and deliberately undermines the fetishisation of victimhood and the moral absolutes that corrupt much of presentday identity politics. Not only does it recount a shocking story that should be better known, it is also a great vehicle for helen garners individual, almost confessional approach to writing. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read joe cinques consolation. But this true story also adds layers of personal responsibility in world affairs, those headlines we all contribute to create each day, by avoiding action, involvement. 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 when he met singh she was in her final year of law at the australian national university in canberra. Joe cinques consolation 2016 watch on sundance now or.
Whereas garners book concerned itself with singhs subsequent trial, writer and director sotiris. 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. Financial analysis of joe cinques consolation 2016 including budget, domestic and international box office gross, dvd and bluray sales reports, total earnings and profitability. 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. In the bestselling book about the death of 26yearold joe cinque and the murder trial that followed, we see everything through garners eyes. Joe cinques consolation is a moody and downbeat and troubling character study, and a psychological thriller that explores an obsessive relationship. Joe cinque s consolation is inspired by helen garner s book bearing the same name, and tells the perfect story of love gone bad.
Joe cinques consolation by award winning filmmaker sotiris dounoukos is the adaptation of helen garners bestselling account of truelife events. With maggie naouri, jerome meyer, sacha joseph, josh mcconville. Lizs library copy of joe cinques consolation just landed, so stay tuned for some hate readin. Joe cinque s consolation 2016 rent movies and tv shows on dvd and bluray. A true story of death, grief and the law is a non fiction book written. 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.
Joe cinques consolation film tie in better reading. Get your kindle here, or download a free kindle reading app. Joe cinque s consolation is a 2016 australian drama film directed by sotiris dounoukos based on the book of the same name by helen garner. Joe cinques consolation hits the big screen hercanberra. 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 is a 2016 australian drama film directed by sotiris dounoukos based on the book of the same name by helen garner. Nov 19, 20 you might think true crime is an unusual genre for book club reading, but im glad my book club chose joe cinques consolation 2004. This is perhaps joe s consolation, that he will always be. Aug 01, 2016 which is the greatest accomplishment of the film.
The promising first feature by helmer and cowriter sotiris. Its been almost 20 years since canberras most infamous and sinister dinner party took place. Joe cinques consolation by helen garner standard reading this book is a bit of a divergence for me as im an almost exclusive fiction reader but i saw it in the book store after coincidentally catching a writers in the rotunda program on tv a victoria university series of conversations with writers where helen garner was. Dec 31, 2016 this feature is not available right now. With doctors unable or unwilling to help, anus engineer boyfriend, joe cinque, attempts to get to the bottom of her condition. Its a crime and drama movie with a better than average. Start reading joe cinques consolation on your kindle in under a minute.
Joe cinques consolation competition now closed cinema. It was released on dvd and digital download in march 2017. Directed by sotiris dounoukos, who attended anu roughly at the same time the events were taking place, the film shows joe and anu s crumbling relationship and also highlights the complicity of anu s friends, whether its madhavi s blind adherence to anything anu says or even the random. 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. Joe cinques consolation by award winning filmmaker sotiris dounoukos, is the adaptation of helen garners bestselling account of these truelife events. It is an account of garners presence at the separate trials of anu singh and her friend madhavi rao, who were accused of murdering singhs boyfriend joe cinque and garners attempts to understand the events that led to his death, as well. In early 1997 anu singh, a beautiful law student at the australian national university began to. Praise for joe cinque s consolation garner s book is a writer s 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. In 2004 australian author helen gardner published 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 at a dinner party where some of the guests had heard about the plan to murder cinque. We have 10 x double passes to give away to a december 11 screening of the incredible new australian thriller, joe cinques consolation. Content from this network is not currently available on this device, but it may be available on other devices. Joe cinque, attempts to get to the bottom of her condition. In early 1997 anu singh, a beautiful law student at the australian national university, confides in friends that she.
Joe cinques consolation competition now closed cinema australia november 24, 2016. Anu singh is interviewed about why she killed joe cinque. Joe cinques consolation, an adaptation of helen garners 2004 book, premieres today after several soldout prescreenings, and showings at the. Titan view announced today that new australian feature film, joe cinques consolation, will be released in cinemas across australian on october, 2016 the film will also have its international premiere at the 41st toronto international film festival tiff. Oct 14, 2016 the biggest problem with joe cinques consolation. But anus mental and emotional state disintegrate, and her plans. Joe cinques consolation is the screen adaptation of helen garners celebrated account of those events. If you want your cinema neatly wrapped with a bow on top by the time you walk out of the theatre, then sotiris dounoukoss joe cinques consolation 2016 is not for you.
As anus mental state deteriorates, she conjures up a macabre plan to put an end to her suffering. She was smart, beautiful, flirtatious and emotionally troubled. Some of the dinner guests most of them university students. Joe cinques consolation 2016 financial information.
I was a chapter away from finishing my reread of harry potter and the goblet of fire when i got the email from the eastern regional libraries to let me know my hold on the electronic edition of joe cinques consolation had come in. With doctors unable to help, anus engineer boyfriend, joe cinque, attempts to get to the bottom of her condition. Joe cinques consolation by helen garner overdrive rakuten. Driven by an impressive performance in her feature debut by maggie naouri as the damaged and dangerously manipulative singh, joe cinques consolation offers a moody and compelling study of the facts. Joe cinques consolation featuring maggie naouri and jerome meyer is streaming on sundance now.
A national bestseller, the book has sold 100,000 copies. Joe cinques consolation is a 2016 australian drama film directed by sotiris dounoukos based. In cooperation with the film director, sotiris dounoukos, we launched the official website for joe. Her first novel, monkey grip, came out in 1977, won the 1978 national book council award, and was adapted for film in 1981. Joe cinques consolation by award winning filmmaker sotiris dounoukos is the. Joe cinques consolation recently had its world premiere as part of the melbourne international film festival in. Joe cinques consolation official trailer release link. Based on the 2004 book by helen garner, joe cinque s consolation tells a deeply disturbing true story.
Audiences can be quite skeptical and prematurely judgmental of anything based on a. Link digital has been supporting the project since 2014 and remains involved in digital promotion and advertising. Search results for joe cinques consolation 2016 dvd. Jan 14, 2016 its been 18 years since anu singh killed joe cinque and not a day goes by when she doesnt think about her crime.
Watch joe cinques consolation in streaming on chili. A true story of death, grief and the law is a nonfiction book by award winning australian author, helen garner. The story of a toxic female murdering her fiancee is an alarming cautionary tale, and its nonfiction. Helen garner in october 1997, a clever young law student at anu made a bizarre plan to murder her devoted boyfriend after a dinner party at their house. Oct 08, 2016 joe cinques consolation m this version of the story also gives full weight to the senselessness of cinques death not to mention the countless missed opportunities to stop it. Oct, 2016 joe cinques consolation 2016 1h 42min crime, drama, thriller october 2016 australia 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. 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. The book was adapted into a 2016 film of the same name. Joe cinques consolation is the screen adaptation of helen garners celebrated account of those events a. A megjeleno oldalon lepj tovabb, majd vard meg a 10 masodpercet az oldalon, es a letoltes automatikusan elindul.