{"title": "Blue Note", "start": "2026-11-20T00:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Institut français du Royaume-Uni (Language Centre)", "address": "Cromwell Place 13, London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "film", "tags": ["film/drama/historical-drama"], "description": "Blue Note (La Note bleue) is a French film about a summer day in 1846 that George Sand spends at her Nohant estate with her close circle of writers and artists, including her daughter Solange, her lover Frédéric Chopin, singer Pauline Viardot and painter Eugène Delacroix. It was directed by Andrzej Żuławski, one of four films he made with Sophie Marceau over fifteen years, and she stars in it alongside Marie-France Pisier, Janusz Olejniczak, Bénédicte Loyen and Féodor Atkine. The restored film screens followed by a Q&A with Sophie Marceau moderated by Daniel Bird.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/blue-note-36657/", "official_url": "https://www.institut-francais.org.uk/cinema/blue-note/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/9d5a01aeaa40a2c0b3756a1312cc7e692e4f79f09e826e91e8e6b292fab4223f-2000.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-20T00:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Institut français du Royaume-Uni (Language Centre)", "address": "Cromwell Place 13, London", "tickets": ""}, {"start": "2026-11-20T20:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Institut français du Royaume-Uni", "address": "Queensberry Place 17;13-15", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "French Film Festival London", "start": "2026-11-18T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-29T00:00:00Z", "place": "Institut français du Royaume-Uni", "address": "Queensberry Place 17;13-15", "price": "From £10", "price_from": "10.00", "price_to": null, "category": "festivals-street", "tags": ["film"], "description": "French Film Festival London is a fortnight of French cinema at Ciné Lumière, with over 40 films and almost 100 screenings. It is organised by the Institut Français du Royaume-Uni and supported by partners including the Polish Cultural Institute London. The programme spans fiction, documentaries and animation by emerging and established directors, with UK premieres, restored classics and Q&As with guests such as Sophie Marceau, Sandrine Kiberlain and Laetitia Masson. There is also a partnership with the Cinéma du réel festival and films for families.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/french-film-festival-london-36674/", "official_url": "https://www.institut-francais.org.uk/festivals-and-series/french-film-festival-london/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/8e08248ccac581c6a578b415384ceefd17d61d0f72f1eabf96ea67c997ed8909-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Nathalie Baye: A Hundred Lives", "start": "2026-08-30T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-12-08T00:00:00Z", "place": "Institut français du Royaume-Uni", "address": "Queensberry Place 17;13-15", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "film", "tags": ["film"], "description": "Nathalie Baye: A Hundred Lives is a film series at Ciné Lumière celebrating the French actress Nathalie Baye (1948-2026), who appeared in almost 100 films. The selection of films, shown with English subtitles, gives a glimpse of the variety of roles she played across a versatile career. Her break came with François Truffaut's Day for Night in 1973, and she went on to work with directors such as Godard, Steven Spielberg and Xavier Dolan, winning four César awards, two of them for best actress.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/nathalie-baye-a-hundred-lives-36669/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/3ed97aee540113d493dba887070025866180822b19c4d30b84b1545fa453b3a1-2000.webp"}, {"title": "A Place for Her", "start": "2026-11-19T17:40:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Institut français du Royaume-Uni", "address": "Queensberry Place 17;13-15", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "film", "tags": ["film/drama", "society/women"], "description": "A Place for Her is a French film about a team at a women's shelter, the Maison des femmes, where care, listening and solidarity help women who have suffered violence rebuild their lives. Workers such as Diane, Manon, Inès and Awa welcome and support the women together, pooling their strengths, vulnerabilities and convictions. Directed by Mélisa Godet, the film celebrates solidarity and resilience, and stars Karin Viard, Laetitia Dosch, Oulaya Amamra and Eye Haidara.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/a-place-for-her-36653/", "official_url": "https://www.institut-francais.org.uk/cinema/a-place-for-her/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/4dd7d02547048cfeda429df760afcffaf2d632eb12d4ea46424a793f5505a295-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Jonathan Coe on Ravel and Vaughan Williams and the Music of Nations", "start": "2026-11-10T18:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Institut français du Royaume-Uni (Language Centre)", "address": "Cromwell Place 13, London", "price": "£12, conc. £10, students £5", "price_from": "12.00", "price_to": "12.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/fiction/contemporary-fiction", "music/classical"], "description": "An evening of conversation and live music at the Institut français du Royaume-Uni, held in English. Novelist Jonathan Coe talks with journalist and musician Philippe Auclair about his new book 'Lessons in Harmony', which imagines the friendship between composer Maurice Ravel and his British pupil Ralph Vaughan Williams in 1907 Paris. The Pomegranate Piano Trio performs extracts from works by both composers. Copies of the book are available to buy on the night thanks to partner bookshop Librairie La Page.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/jonathan-coe-on-ravel-and-vaughan-williams-and-the-music-of-74187/", "official_url": "https://www.institut-francais.org.uk/events-agenda/lessons-in-harmony-with-jonathan-coe/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/7437c4d4bd318f9d83a3868666ac3bc7bc93ba09336fd0df0b377e02c2396716-2000.webp"}, {"title": "90th Anniversary Film Screening", "start": "2026-11-06T19:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Dorich House Museum", "address": "Kingston Vale 67, SW15 3RN London", "price": "", "price_from": "10.00", "price_to": "10.00", "category": "film", "tags": ["art/sculpture", "film/documentary"], "description": "A special screening of the film Dora Gordine: Ars Gratia Artis, marking 90 years since Dora Gordine and Richard Hare married and settled at Dorich House. Made over eight years by filmmaker Annaleena Piel Linnå, the first-ever feature-length film about Gordine traces her life and career from Latvia and Estonia to Paris, Singapore and her London studio home, and features rare recordings of her. Doors open beforehand with a chance to look around the museum, enjoy refreshments and live 1930s-inspired music, and after the screening the filmmaker discusses her research with the museum's curator, Fiona Fisher.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/90th-anniversary-film-screening-35609/", "official_url": "https://www.dorichhousemuseum.org.uk/2026/10/08/90th-anniversary-film-screening-friday-6-november/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/da8dd3d4be6147dc267367cc68e9333a2cb494a711925785d0e21ac2c332b8fa-2000.webp"}, {"title": "A Womans Life", "start": "2026-11-18T19:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Institut français du Royaume-Uni", "address": "Queensberry Place 17;13-15", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "film", "tags": ["film/drama"], "description": "A Woman's Life is a French-language drama about Gabrielle, a surgeon and hospital department head who juggles her demanding profession with a loving husband and a mother needing her care, until a novelist researching a book in her department shakes her equilibrium. It was directed by Charline Bourgeois-Tacquet and stars Léa Drucker, Mélanie Thierry, Charles Berling, Laurent Capelluto and Marie-Christine Barrault. Drucker, a two-time César winner, delivers a superb performance in this finely textured character study of high-powered, middle-aged femininity.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/a-womans-life-36652/", "official_url": "https://www.institut-francais.org.uk/cinema/a-womans-life/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/38e963f8faeffbf9d1d38b5bf2b0cc3ffa6fee7222ab959751ea59c96cc6dbee-2000.webp"}]}