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Budget Classic Car Night.
by SkyeDave- 2 replies
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Come join us this Wednesday 2nd March where we pit the cheapest Classic cars against each other for a night of fun, low stakes racing. Eligible cars are: Dynasty Manana Peyote Tornado Tornado Cabrio Tornado Custom Mariachi Tornado You can race the same car all night or chop and change and try other peoples. Sign up below: 1. SkyeDave 2. Mulder
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Mystery Car February 2022
by Mark Verstappen- 3 replies
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Come and join us for Mystery Car on Wednesday 23th of February at 20:00 GMT. We will start out in free roam at the parking lot west of the Vespucci Beach Houses from where we will have to follow the clues to find the Mystery Car. Once the car is revealed we will all buy it if needed, modify it, then spend the night racing it. The price of the car will be less than $100k so don't worry about having to spend millions to join in. The usual rules will apply, don't bring the emergency services along with you in free roam, don't kill other players, race clean and respect the other racers.... Basically don't be a bellend. Post your best mystery GIF below to get in…
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The Return of 'What's Under The Hood?'
by SkyeDave- 1 follower
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Is it Stock or Sleeper? Racer or Ricer? Join us this Wednesday 16th February 20:00GMT for a muscle car series with a difference. As well as trying to beat each other on the track we'll be trying to trick each other into being in slower cars as we wonder, what's under the hood? It's like a game of poker at 100mph. The 11 Cars allowed on the night: Blade, Dukes (not of Death), Ruiner, Sabre Turbo(not custom), Burger Shot Stallion, Phoenix, Redwood Gauntlet, Stallion, Buccaneer, Gauntlet and the Vigero You can pick a different car each race or stay in the same one. The cars can be fully modded, they can be stock or if you're feeling particularl…
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ABC 2
by Mark Verstappen- 1 follower
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ABC 2 Come and join us on Wednesday 9th of February at 20:00 UK Time for ABC! Just turn up to the parking lot of the Church in Strawberry in any of the 8 ABC 2 cars. We will determine who knows their ABC best before we start a playlist to determine who gets an A+! For all races we will all race one car of the ABC per race from 1 to Z starting with F to M this Wednesday. ABC will be hosted sporadically. We wont do all of the nights in succession. Don't worry if you don't own all/any of the cars, we can spawn them in for you. For this week the list of cars is: Fränken Stange Gauntlet Hellfire Hellion I-Wagen Jac…
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Survive the Hunt 3
by Mark Verstappen- 1 follower
- 6 replies
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Survive the Hunt 3 Come and join us in Survive the Hunt, where the aim is to... Well... survive the hunt! Wednesday 2nd of February 20:00 UK time starting from Vespucci Helipad. What is Survive The Hunt? Essentially, Survive The Hunt is a freeroam game mode where one player is "hunted" by 8+ other players. There is no radar, HUD or name-tags in order to make this a bit more interesting. While there is no set tactic, the most popular and effective one is for the hunted player to "blend in" with the game AI - either on foot or in a car. This means obeying traffic laws, following the road at an AI-ish pace, stopping at traffic lights etc. The hunters can employ a…
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Hello Vans! Sorry, I should dhav ebput the sup much sooner. We've been Kindly invited to join XDBX this Wednesday night as part of their 8 year anniversary. They're starting a little earlier then they normally do to accommodate us. It'll be a mixed playlist which has always been good fun in the past, not least because they're a really good bunch of guys. Please click the link and RSVP on the left hand side to give them an idea of numbers. Apologies for not putting this up sooner. @mulder @Mark Verstappen @Warriors-Ten @CatManDoza @JuniorChubb @Paulie @badingaaa
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Sports C Class Wednesday 19th January
by SkyeDave- 1 follower
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Come join us at short notice this Wednesday while we race cars from the Sports C class. (Thanks to Broughy1322 for the tiers making everyones life easier) There's a mix of new and old school cars in the group and you can race as many different cars on the night as you like. 9F 9F Cabrio Bestia GTS Cypher Flash GT Jester RR Komoda Penumbra FF Raiden Revolter Sentinel Classic Specter Specter Custom Surano V-STR
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1979 Rallye De Paleto, Wed 12th January 8PM
by SkyeDave- 1 follower
- 14 replies
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The Annual Rallye De Paleto will be held this Wednesday 12th January. Where is it? Paleto Bay is a quaint little town in the North of Blaine County, San Andreas. It's Northwest of Paleto Forest and at the foot of Mount Chiliad. It's mixture of great shops and amusements as well as the Procopio Beach making it a great place to visit for the whole family. What is it? Set over 3 gruelling stages totalling more than 35miles the Rallye De Paleto promises to break cars as well as spirits as it winds through the Paleto Forest, Chiliad Mountain State Wilderness, Raton Canyon, Cassidy Creek, the Alamo Sea, Mount Josiah and the Grand…
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Cont(r)act Racing!
by Mark Verstappen- 4 replies
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Cont(r)act Racing! Come and join us on Wednesday the 5th of January at 20:00 UK Time for Cont(r)act Racing! Just turn up to the parking lot of the Golf Club in your favorite released 'The Contract' car. We will determine who has the best car before we start a playlist to determine the best Contract Racer! We will race the currently released cars from the Contact Update with the cars listed below. Each race will feature only one of the cars so we can all try them out equally. The Cars: Astron Buffalo STX Champion Cinquemila Deity Ignus Jubilee Baller ST Zeno …
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The Return of the Cat! 1 2
by JuniorChubb- 1 follower
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To celebrate the return of Catman (who probably wont even turn up) we have a night of RoofRacks & Saftness! Post below if you are coming out to play and suggest a job that reminds you of our bearded Mexican friend to add to the playlist... We will also tie in some stuff from the new update, especially if it involves Alfa Romeo's and roof racks. Wed 15th Dec 8pm, be there or.... don't be there!
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Helmut's American Autos D Muscle
by Mark Verstappen- 3 replies
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Helmut's American Autos D Muscle Come and join us on Wednesday the 8st of December at 20:00 UK Time for Helmut's American Autos D Muscle! Just turn up to the parking lot of Helmut's European Autos in Paleto Bay just of U.S. Route 1 in your favorite eligible Muscle Car. We will determine who has the best car before we start a playlist to determine the winner of Helmut's American Autos B Sports! We will race the Burger Shot Stallion, Deviant, Hermes, Phoenix, Redwood Gauntlet, Slamvan Custom, Stallion & Tampa against each other. You can switch the whole night with the cars you want but each car can only be used twice. These cars should be all about the sa…
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Daves Motorsport Masterpiece
by JuniorChubb- 1 follower
- 13 replies
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Sorry guys... not been the best of weeks, got nothing planned right now but hey... that’s no reason to not sign up! I should be online and have something sorted, if not I’ll let you know ASAP!
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Mystery Car November 2021
by Mark Verstappen- 1 follower
- 5 replies
- 464 views
Come and join us for Mystery Car on Wednesday 17th of November at 20:00 GMT. We will start out in free roam on the soccer field of the track-and-field complex at the University of San Andreas, Los Santos location from where we will have to follow the clues to find the Mystery Car. Once the car is revealed we will all buy it if needed, modify it, then spend the night racing it. The price of the car will be less than $100k so don't worry about having to spend millions to join in. The usual rules will apply, don't bring the emergency services along with you in free roam, don't kill other players, race clean and respect the other racers.... Basically don't be a bell…
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Go Kart Race Night
by JuniorChubb- 1 follower
- 14 replies
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Apparently Go-Karts are here... Come and join us for a night of Go Kart Racing this Wednesday!! Not sure what to expect but I'm sure we will find out, Go Kart Gifs below please...
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ABC 1
by Mark Verstappen- 1 follower
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ABC 1 Come and join us on Wednesday 3rd of October at 20:00 UK Time for ABC! Just turn up to the parking lot of the Church in Strawberry in any of the 8 ABC 1 cars. We will determine who knows their ABC best before we start a playlist to determine who gets an A+! For all races we will all race one car of the ABC per race from 1 to Z starting with 1 to E this Wednesday. ABC will be hosted sporadically. We wont do all of the nights in succession. Don't worry if you don't own all/any of the cars, we can spawn them in for you. For this week the list of cars is: 190z 8F Drafter 9F (Either one) Adder Bison Cyp…
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Night of the Bogey Car!!!
by JuniorChubb- 1 follower
- 17 replies
- 630 views
Come and join us for some last minute planned Halloween fun this Wednesday... This Halloween themed night will feature a new racing system called the Bogey Car! We will all pick a different car on the grid, we will elect chose the worse car and elect this to be the bogey car, we will select a few other choices to be known as the 'popular cars'. Whoever won the last race and/or whoever is top of the Playlist will have to race in the bogey car. To rid yourself of the Bogey Car curse all you need to do is not finish last in a race and you can go back to the popular selection again. Best Halloween gif below get pole in the first race!
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Rigged Random Car Extravaganza Pt6
by Mark Verstappen- 1 follower
- 9 replies
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Come and join us on Wednesday 20th of October at 8 PM British time for Part 6 of the Rigged Random Car Extravaganza! After doing the Rigged Random Tier Extravaganza recently I thought it was only fitting (and time) to see what wacky, fast, slow, stupid cars it would give us. After a meet up in free roam east across the water from Bristols (The big t*ts looking buildings 💦) we will launch into a playlist of races where you will only know what car we will be racing each race when we get to the race lobby. Each car is determined by a random generator with a few exclusions like not more than 3 cars from the same class, used recently in an event or often used cars in…
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Gamblers Anonymous
by JuniorChubb- 1 follower
- 19 replies
- 696 views
Come and join us this Wednesday for a night of racing!! Race points will go out the window as the only thing we will keep track of is the money... Every race will see every racer bet on the outcome, make sure you bring a pencils and some paper to keep track of your gains and losses as the player with the highest cash sum at the end of the night wins, so its go big or go home. Bet as little or as much as you like on each race (every missed bet will cost you cash and grid positioning). You cannot bet on yourself to win. The races will be locked to one car (sorry all my jobs to make things easy) so we don't waste tie picking cars, we can just bet! …
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Pfister Tonight!
by Mark Verstappen- 1 follower
- 12 replies
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Pfister Tonight! Come and join us on Wednesday 6th of October at 20:00 UK Time for Paulie's Night! Just turn up to the front door of the Von Crastenburg Hotel in Morningwood in any Pfister. We will determine who has the best taste in Pfister before we start a playlist to determine who is the Master of Pfisters! For this night we will do all 8 Pfisters once. These are in order... Comet 811 Comet Retro Custom Comet Safari Neon Comet SR Growler Comet S2 Don't worry if you don't own all/any of the Pfisters, we can spawn them in for you. If you own an 811, please let me know with your sign…
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Planes Trains and Automobiles
by JuniorChubb- 1 follower
- 11 replies
- 585 views
Come and join us this Wednesday night for something involving vehicles of the travelling variety! If it can be raced we will race it... and do other things with it, hopefully things that might stop Mulder from winning because they require more luck than skill. Planes, Trains & Automobiles my dudes. Post a suitable gif below to sign up, best gif gets a prize!
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Rigged Random Tier Extravaganza
by Mark Verstappen- 1 follower
- 14 replies
- 689 views
Come and join us on Wednesday 22nd August at 20:00 UK Time for the Rigged Random Tier Extravaganza. After a meet up behind 'Bishop's WTF?!' we will launch into a playlist of races where you will only know what class and tier of car you can choose before each race when we get to the race lobbies. A tier is a group of cars in a class all about on the same pace. For example in SUV's one of these is the Granger, Landstalker XL, Rocoto, Seminole Frontier, Serrano, Squaddie & XLS. This should give us a diverse grid of cars maybe not often used while still competitive among eachother. Each tier is determined by a random generator with a few exclusions like skipping…
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Night of the Pantoloons Pt2
by JuniorChubb- 1 follower
- 7 replies
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Come and join us for this nonsense!!! I know I promised you a Top Gear but I am rubbish so have this instead, a night of debauchery in the the official car of the Van Society! Meet at the Vans Clubhouse in your Panto... be there or be a four sided polygon with sides of equal length. Post below to show some kind of interest.
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Mystery Car September 2021
by Mark Verstappen- 1 follower
- 16 replies
- 688 views
Come and join us for Mystery Car on Wednesday 8th of September at 20:00 GMT. We will start out in free roam at the parking lot in eastern Cypress Flats from where we will have to follow the clues to find the Mystery Car. Once the car is revealed we will all buy it if needed, modify it, then spend the night racing it. The price of the car will be less than $100k so don't worry about having to spend millions to join in. The usual rules will apply, don't bring the emergency services along with you in free roam, don't kill other players, race clean and respect the other racers.... Basically don't be a bellend. Post below to get involved! Verstappen …
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Drift Kings 1 2
by JuniorChubb- 1 follower
- 30 replies
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Come and join us this Wednesday for our Drift Kings night!!! Come along in any car that you are able to fit Drift Tyres to, and make sure you have fitted those drift tyres. We will be running a night of drifting and racing in a low grip environment. Post below to get involved. Photo by serjan midili on Unsplash
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Survive the Hunt 2
by Mark Verstappen- 7 replies
- 552 views
Survive the Hunt 2 Come and join us in Survive the Hunt, where the aim is to... Well... survive the hunt! Wednesday 24th of august 20:00 UK time starting from the parking lot of the Maze Bank Arena. What is Survive The Hunt? Essentially, Survive The Hunt is a freeroam game mode where one player is "hunted" by 8+ other players. There is no radar, HUD or name-tags in order to make this a bit more interesting. While there is no set tactic, the most popular and effective one is for the hunted player to "blend in" with the game AI - either on foot or in a car. This means obeying traffic laws, following the road at an AI-ish pace, stopping at traffic lights etc. The…
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HELLDIVERS 2
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Rate the Last Film you Watched 2: Electric Boogaloo
What I Watched This Week #120 (April 15-21) Of Time and the City dir. Terence Davies/2008/1h18m Of Time and the City is a documentary collage film made up of newsreel and archive footage that builds up a picture of the director's childhood in Liverpool during the 50's and 60's. This is like film as a memory, fragmented and broken into unrelated segments as if it were edited by stream of consciousness all scored to a majestic classical soundtrack. The narration, by Davies himself, is just like the rest of the film, at times he snarls about religion and the royal family, at others he rhapsodises about his working class upbringing, his s*xual awakening. Both incredibly personal and universal – he could be talking about a thousand cities, a thousand lives – the juxtaposition of dirt poor children playing in the streets set to highbrow classical music does become a little laboured over the length of the film, but that is my only small negative I have for this very moving picture of time and place. 9/10 Joint Security Area dir. Park Chan-wook/2000/1h48m On the border of North and South Korea two Northern soldiers are killed by a soldier from the South with the investigation uncovering what seems to be a very strange mystery – too many bullets fired, stories not matching up – but the truth is much simpler and much more tragic. Director Park Chan-wook is a master of unravelling mysteries in interesting ways – Oldboy and the recent Decision to Leave being two prime examples – and this is no different, with the investigation uncovering more information relayed through flashbacks. Saying anything more about the plot would be to spoil it, but the tension never lets up, even during moments of levity, because one wrong move would be disastrous for both sides. The two lead performances of South Korean Sgt. Lee (Lee Byung-hun) and the North's Sgt. Oh (Song Kang-ho, probably the biggest star in Korean film right now thanks to his work with b*ng Joon-ho) are excellent. The film also ends with a brilliant still image from a scene in the middle of the film that is given a whole new meaning thanks to the context we subsequently get. 9/10 Lime's Film of the Week! Dead of Night dir. Charles Crichton, Basil Dearden, Robert Hamer, Alberto Cavalcanti/1945/1h43m Dead of Night is an anthology horror film that stars Mervyn Johns as Walter Craig, an architect invited to a cosy little country inn to see about renovations, but when he arrives he realises that all of the people there, total strangers, are people he has seen in a dream, a dream where something terrible happens at the end, but he can't remember what. We then get four of the guests telling spooky stories of their own, which makes up the majority of the film. While the first three stories are good, especially the more comedic one about a dead golfer haunting his friend, it's the last one that really sticks with you. It stars Michael Redgrave as ventriloquist Maxwell Frere who goes mad with jealousy thinking that his d*mmy Hugo wants to leave him for another ventriloquist. It felt very much like an inspiration for the brilliant Anthony Hopkins film Magic (and every other creepy ventriloquist's d*mmy in media.) Chilling and charming in equal measure, this is a fun watch with some genuine thrills sprinkled throughout. 9/10 The Guard dir. John Michael McDonagh/2011/1h36m Mean, miserable, drug addled and prostitute loving small town Irish cop Gerry Boyle (Brendan Gleeson) is less than pleased when he's teamed up with FBI agent Wendell Everett (Don Cheadle) to bust an international drug smuggling ring. This is a black comedy with a real mean streak that you can't help but to compare to the works of the director's brother Martin McDonagh, particularly In Bruges. It's a testament to this film that it's not a totally unflattering comparison. Gleeson is always a joy to watch, even when he's playing someone so aggressively unlikeable. Cheadle doesn't really have a lot to do other than be amazed that Boyle is saying/doing the things that he's saying/doing, but he does it well. It does fell a little too mean spirited at points, but that is softened by a few scenes where Boyle meets with his equally foul-mouthed mother (Fionnula Flanagan), and I really liked Mark Strong's character of a drug dealer who feels like he's above it all. 7/10 The Party dir. Sally Potter/2017/1h11m Janet (Kristin Scott Thomas) is throwing a party to celebrate getting a shadow ministerial position but her husband Bill (Timothy Spall) seems distant and distracted, her best friend April (Patricia Clarkson) is splitting up with her partner, the very zen Godfried (Bruno Ganz), and Tom (Cillian Murphy) has turned up upset with a load of cocaine and a gun. A blackly comic social satire, this gets a little too verbose at times and feels like the characters are just spouting ideologies rather than having conversations for a lot of the very short runtime, but when it is as well written as this is you can forgive that for the most part. The performances are all solid. Clarkson's withering insults had me cackling every time, and I couldn't get enough of Ganz's Godfried, especially when he starts a therapy session for Bill and Tom. This film also has a really strong ending which I didn't see coming but that the script had seeded subtly throughout in a very smart way. 8.5/10 The Cure dir. Charlie Chaplin/1917/24m In this mid tier Chaplin short he plays an alcoholic who checks in to a health spa in order to sober up, but it's going to be a hard job when he brings a case full of booze with him. In the end the spa's well of curative water is spiked with alcohol and everyone enjoys getting blasted. During the film he makes classic slapstick out of revolving doors, the changing rooms and has a wrestling match with a burly masseuse. For me, whenever Chaplin strays from the character of the little tr*mp his films lose a bit of their heart and humanity. Rather than actually having anything to say this film is more like his earlier works in that it's just a succession of gags. They're really good ones performed by the best to ever do it, but when you know he's capable of more then you can't help but feel a little disappointed. That said, this is still better than the majority of films from the time and we're lucky to still have them. 6.5/10 Dilating for Maximum Results dir. Nyala Moon/2023/14m Trans woman Dreya (writer/director Nyala Moon) is going to hook up with her online boyfriend for the first time, but she has never been with a man and hasn't dilated in years, with this comedy following her as she tries to get ready. You learn something new every day, and the day I watched this film I learned that trans women need to dilate to stop from closing up, and that is what we get here in what I can only call a zany way. My main problem with this film is that the comedy is very TikTok if that makes sense. It's just not my taste, but that's me being an old man not hip with the kids. I do like how much of Moon's personality shines through here, she's very engaging and likeable. I also appreciate seeing a film about a trans woman that's not depressing and only focuses on negative experiences. 6/10 TRAY TRAY KO dir. Seba Calfuqueo/2022/6m (no trailer so here's the artist performing another piece in a gallery) This avant-garde piece of indigenous art see filmmaker Calfuqueo drag a long train of shimmering blue material through the Chilean rainforest to a sacred spot at the base of a waterfall. The only sounds are that of the forest and the water. The material is like a stream of man's making, leaving its mark on the landscape but only for a second, only until Calfuqueo hass passed by. There's a gorgeous overhead shot of the synthetic stream running next to a real one, man in harmony with nature. Hypnotic and meditative. 7/10- 2
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Anatomy of a Fall (2023) dir Justine Triet This won this year's Oscar and Bafta Best Original Screenplay awards, and it is a very good story. It stars Sandra Hüller as author Sandra, living with her husband and son in the French Alps. When her husband is found dead, having apparently fallen from an upper floor balcony of their house, an investigation is launched and, eventually, she is prosecuted for murder. I would not call this a thriller. It's neither about police trying to catch a killer nor a typical court room drama of an innocent person falsely accused. We simply watch the story unfold and see the evidence, not being told anything more than we would if we were one of the jury. I think the idea is you make your own mind up about whether Sandra is guilty or not. A lot of it is played out at the trial, but whether it's because it's a French court, and they do things very differently to British and American courts, or just the specifics of this case, it's not like any court-room based film I have ever seen before. It feels a lot more real than a story being told by a film usually does, but still not like a drama-documentary either. It's mainly in English, Sandra is German, her husband and son French, they, tend to speak in English to each other and she gives most of her evidence at the trial in English too. The acting is very good, particularly from Hüller. It's well worth the awards and nominations it got. 9 / 10- 2
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