{"title": "Love Lessons", "start": "2026-11-18T17:00:00Z", "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/comedy"], "description": "Love Lessons is a French comedy drama about Émile, a teacher who, on the eve of his retirement, urges his students to become the poets of their own lives. Returning home, he finds his wife has left him and must now live by the words he has been preaching. Directed by Martin Provost, the film stars Fabrice Luchini, Chiara Mastroianni, Emmanuelle Devos and Carole Bouquet. Its original title is Demain je tombe amoureux.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/love-lessons-74204/", "official_url": "https://www.institut-francais.org.uk/cinema/love-lessons/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/56bc8d4e75885cbd66f3fb8aa6abe59cf6604e4a6a3fa35ccebf24005c044e06-2000.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-18T17:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Institut français du Royaume-Uni (Language Centre)", "address": "Cromwell Place 13, London", "tickets": ""}, {"start": "2026-11-28T00:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Institut français du Royaume-Uni (Language Centre)", "address": "Cromwell Place 13, London", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"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"}, {"title": "The Teachers' Lounge", "start": "2026-11-16T18:10:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Lexi Cinema", "address": "Chamberlayne Road 194b, NW10 3JU London", "price": "", "price_from": "8.00", "price_to": "8.00", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/drama"], "description": "An evening screening of the Oscar-nominated drama The Teachers' Lounge, followed by a panel discussion. Director İlker Çatak's film stars Leonie Benesch as Carla, a young maths teacher who becomes embroiled in a thorny moral debate when she begins suspecting a fellow staff member of stealing at school. The panel features teacher and film writer Charlotte Harrison and film critic Tim Robey.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/the-teachers-lounge-37008/", "official_url": "https://thelexicinema.co.uk/TheLexiCinema.dll/WhatsOn?f=10184906", "image": "https://noky.io/images/107dac3c458090ebec443518d8d91333cfb7bc1b5d70e47c65544fe2eef811c5-2000.webp"}, {"title": "The Literal Translation (VOILA! 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The show runs for 60 minutes and is recommended for ages 16 and up, contains some mild swearing, and is supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/the-literal-translation-voila-festival-60544/", "official_url": "https://www.voilafestival.co.uk/events/the-literal-translation/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/abbf8c57494617636871f208b5545ec5ce0a76cebfd31253d112086f42d5e235-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Amelie", "start": "2026-11-13T15:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Prince Charles Cinema", "address": "Leicester Place 7, WC2H 7BY London", "price": "From £11", "price_from": "11.00", "price_to": null, "category": "film", "tags": ["film/comedy"], "description": "A romance-comedy about Amélie, a lonely 23-year-old waitress at the Café des Deux Moulins in Paris who finds a box of treasures hidden in her apartment and devotes herself to doing good deeds, before falling for Nino, a photobooth collagist who shares her oddball sensibilities. It is directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet and stars Audrey Tautou, Mathieu Kassovitz and Rufus.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/amelie-64022/", "official_url": "https://princecharlescinema.com/film/1870384/amelie-25th-anniversary", "image": "https://noky.io/images/fb7a3c02be1a74f6c5d617933c4265b12d95d652c2d2fde2bdd68fac0c11aa4c-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Orange Flavoured-Wedding", "start": "2026-11-19T20:00:00Z", "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": "Orange Flavoured-Wedding is a French ensemble film directed by Christophe Honoré, whose cast includes Adèle Exarchopoulos, Nadia Tereszkiewicz, Vincent Lacoste and Paul Kircher. It tells of the Puig family, seven siblings reunited in March 1978 in the suburbs of Nantes for the wedding of the youngest, Jacques, to Martine. Their banished father is absent, and the film asks whether love can heal the wounds of childhood. Honoré's story confronts the very heart of human relationships and the wounds of the past we carry with us.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/orange-flavoured-wedding-36655/", "official_url": "https://www.institut-francais.org.uk/cinema/orange-flavoured-wedding/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/b4df853d8b3d3232b130af224824f0a249d02616770cf5ba3b2a2fe79a033aa5-2000.webp"}, {"title": "La Gradiva", "start": "2026-11-18T20:20:00Z", "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/coming-of-age-drama"], "description": "La Gradiva is a feature film screening on a cinema screen. Director Marine Atlan follows a pack of rowdy French teenagers on a school field trip to Pompeii, where sunshine, desire, passion, angst and class tensions unfold against the ruins and beauty of the ancient past. As the journey progresses, pressures build between the students as they confront the hidden economic realities structuring their social lives. The film captures the fleeting nature of adolescence and summer, and was nominated for the Golden Camera and the Queer Palm at the 2026 Cannes Film Festival.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/la-gradiva-74200/", "official_url": "https://www.institut-francais.org.uk/cinema/la-gradiva/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/6c3acad915477f3220f2a109b4dd7da5860fa7ab4ed31106ac94482b1c7fe8b4-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Possible Love", "start": "2026-11-07T14:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Garden Cinema", "address": "Parker Street 39-41, WC2B 5PQ London", "price": "", "price_from": "10.00", "price_to": "10.00", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/drama"], "description": "Possible Love is a South Korean drama about two married couples whose lives become entangled after a funeral brings them together. Mi-ok, living quietly with her laid-off husband, agrees to be filmed by documentary maker Ye-ji and finds herself drawn to Ye-ji's unreadable husband Sang-woo, as fractures appear in their daily existence. It marks director Lee Chang-dong's first release in eight years, with Jeon Do-yeon, Sul Kyung-gu, Cho Yeo-jeong and Zo In-sung starring. The film is presented in Korean with English subtitles.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/possible-love-34775/", "official_url": "https://www.thegardencinema.co.uk/film/possible-love/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/6617a938fb605474e2ebf6f733330626bac1ef3d12d3edc6ccaa0d7062fc460d-1200.webp"}, {"title": "It's Only the End of the World", "start": "2026-11-06T15:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Institut français du Royaume-Uni (Language Centre)", "address": "Cromwell Place 13, London", "price": "", "price_from": "11.00", "price_to": "11.00", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/drama"], "description": "It’s Only the End of the World is a French film about a writer who returns to his hometown after twelve years away, as long-simmering grievances erupt into bitter confrontations with his family. It was directed by Xavier Dolan and stars Nathalie Baye, Vincent Cassel, Marion Cotillard and Léa Seydoux, with Baye giving a deeply affecting performance as a heartbroken mother. The film won the Grand Prix at Festival de Cannes 2016.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/its-only-the-end-of-the-world-74174/", "official_url": "https://www.institut-francais.org.uk/cinema/its-only-the-end-of-the-world/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/1c519e52b635dc17a1f84d7c7ed8f299d9f1172ab4ee7ab365ccb4c6ad8839ba-2000.webp"}]}