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Ticket Giveaway – Joe Cinque’s Consolation

After World Premiering at the 2016 Melbourne International Film Festival and taking it by storm selling out all its sessions in record time before causing a stir at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival, Australian Sotiris Dounoukos’ provocative debut feature film Joe Cinque’s Consolation is finally heading into cinemas for local audiences to experience it! Based on Helen Garner’s scorching non fiction account of a brutal murder that stunned a nation an featuring a blistering star turn from Maggie Naouri, Titan View and The Lowdown Under are giving you the chance to win one of five double passes to see the film when it releases from October 13, 2016!

‘…Singh’s victim may grace the film’s title, but thanks to (Maggie) Naouri’s calculating yet vulnerable portrayal, the feature fares best as a careful portrait of a woman unravelling in an extreme manner.’ – Sarah Ward, Screen Daily

‘A focused examination of a troubling human tragedy, breathing new life into the departed by exploring the unknowable. 4.5 stars‘ – Richard Gray, The Reel Bits

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Synopsis: 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 to a mysterious illness. With doctors unable or unwilling to help, Anu’s engineer boyfriend, Joe Cinque, attempts to get to the bottom of her condition. But Anu’s mental and emotional state disintegrates, and her plans grow more macabre.

Joe Cinque’s Consolation by award winning filmmaker Sotiris Dounoukos, is the adaptation of Helen Garner’s best-selling account of these true-life events: an examination of collective and individual responsibility, and a crime that shocked Australia.

Director: Sotiris Dounoukos

Cast: Maggie Naouri, Jerome Meyer, Sacha Joseph, Josh McConville, Gia Carides