Joe Cinque's Consolation

– In late 1997, Anu Singh, an attractive law student in Canberra, made plans to kill her boyfriend Joe..

Type:
Movie
Rating:
6.50 / 10
Duration:
One Hour and 42 Minutes
Release Year:
2016
Joe Cinque's Consolation (2016)

In late 1997, Anu Singh, an attractive law student in Canberra, made plans to kill her boyfriend Joe Cinque after throwing a series of macabre farewell dinner parties. The dinner guests, most of them university students, had heard various rumours about her plan, but nobody warned Joe. Joe's death and the subsequent trial drew the attention of the whole country, as the broader community struggled to come terms with how a life could fall through so many hands.

Producing Country:
Genre:
Release Date:

13 Oct 2016

Language:

English, Italian

Director:

Sotiris Dounoukos

Writer:

Sotiris Dounoukos (screenplay by), Helen Garner (based on the book by), Matt Rubinstein (screenplay by)

Main Actors:

Maggie Naouri, Jerome Meyer, Sacha Joseph, Josh McConville

Plot:

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. Despite this, none of them warned him.

Awards:

3 nominations.

Ratings:
Internet Movie Database:
6.5/10
Rotten Tomatoes:
75%