Joe Cinque's Consolation
– In late 1997, Anu Singh, an attractive law student in Canberra, made plans to kill her boyfriend Joe..
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.
13 Oct 2016
English, Italian
Sotiris Dounoukos
Sotiris Dounoukos (screenplay by), Helen Garner (based on the book by), Matt Rubinstein (screenplay by)
Maggie Naouri, Jerome Meyer, Sacha Joseph, Josh McConville
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.
3 nominations.