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Joe Cinque film selected for Toronto

NEWS IS out at last that Sotiris Dounoukos’ long-awaited film “Joe Cinque’s Consolation” has been officially selected in in the 41st Toronto International Film Festival.

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Releasing nationally in Australian cinemas on October 13, the movie recently had its world premiere as part of the Melbourne International Film Festival in which the film saw its two sessions sell out in a matter of hours.

“Joe Cinque’s Consolation” stars Maggie Naouri (TV’s Wentworth, Offspring), Jerome Meyer (TV’s Secrets and Lies), Gia Carides (My Big Fat Greek Wedding, TV’s Wonderland),  Josh McConville (The Infinite Man, The Killing Field) and as the main female character, Anu Singh, Sacha Joseph (TV’s The Hollowmen, City Homicide).

This film adaptation of Helen Garner’s best-selling book of the same name tells the true story of the death of Joe Cinque. In early 1997 Singh, a law student at the ANU, confides in friends that she plans to kill herself to put an end to a mysterious illness. With doctors unable or unwilling to help, Anu’s boyfriend, Joe Cinque, attempts to get to the bottom of her condition. As Anu’s mental and emotional state begins to disintegrate, her plans grow more macabre and more public. After an elaborate farewell dinner party attended by friends, Anu drugs Joe with Rohypnol. Now under Anu’s control, Joe’s fate depends on their friends and colleagues intervening to save his life. Instead they gradually withdraw, unwilling to help or immobilised by doubt or disbelief.

More than a day later, on October 26, 1997, Anu injects Joe with a lethal dose of heroin.

The selection for Toronto marks Dounoukos’ return to the festival, where in 2014, he was awarded TIFF’s Best International Short Film Award for his film, “A Single Body”. The film later collected the best film awards at the St Kilda Film Festival and Dendy Award as part of the Sydney Film Festival.

Titan View will screen “Joe Cinque’s Consolation” in cinemas across Australia on October 13.

 

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