{"title": "Nathalie Baye: A Hundred Lives", "start": "2026-08-30T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-26T00:00:00Z", "place": "Institut français du Royaume-Uni (Language Centre)", "address": "Cromwell Place 13, London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "film", "tags": ["film"], "description": "Nathalie Baye: A Hundred Lives is a film series celebrating the French actor Nathalie Baye (1948-2026), running from 30 August to 26 November. It was put on by the Institut français du Royaume-Uni, screening at Ciné Lumière. Over a career of almost 100 films, Baye was recognised for her ability to adapt to any role, playing characters from a continuity girl and an alcoholic police officer to a supermarket cashier and a French aristocrat in the second Downton Abbey film. The selection offers a glimpse of the variety of films she played in, from her break in François Truffaut's Day for Night to work with Godard, Spielberg and many female directors, within a limited choice of titles available with English subtitles.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/nathalie-baye-a-hundred-lives-69906/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/3ed97aee540113d493dba887070025866180822b19c4d30b84b1545fa453b3a1-2000.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-08-30T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-26T00:00:00Z", "place": "Institut français du Royaume-Uni (Language Centre)", "address": "Cromwell Place 13, London", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"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, "tickets_url": "", "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": "God's Offices", "start": "2026-11-08T14:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Institut français du Royaume-Uni (Language Centre)", "address": "Cromwell Place 13, London", "price": "", "price_from": "14.00", "price_to": "14.00", "tickets_url": "https://cinelumiere.savoysystems.co.uk/CineLumiere.dll/TSelectItems.waSelectItemsPrompt.TcsWebMenuItem_600.TcsWebTab_601.TcsPerformance_6970744.TcsSection_6930861", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/drama"], "description": "God's Offices is a French ensemble film in which Nathalie Baye plays Anne, one of the dedicated and empathetic family planning counsellors who welcome and listen to women, each grappling with the question of how sexual freedom can truly be possible. 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Baye shines not as the central protagonist, but as an actress whose generosity of spirit elevates those around her, enriching every scene she shares.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/gods-offices-74186/", "official_url": "https://www.institut-francais.org.uk/cinema/gods-offices/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/71a4d4bd77327407c5513cdb7126a31728e033a91dcae78a0c04a5af1d691650-2000.webp"}, {"title": "It's Only the End of the World", "start": "2026-11-01T16:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Institut français du Royaume-Uni", "address": "Queensberry Place 17;13-15", "price": "", "price_from": "11.00", "price_to": "11.00", "tickets_url": "https://cinelumiere.savoysystems.co.uk/CineLumiere.dll/TSelectItems.waSelectItemsPrompt.TcsWebMenuItem_600.TcsWebTab_601.TcsPerformance_6979337.TcsSection_3841519", "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"}, {"title": "Our Story", "start": "2026-11-01T14:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Institut français du Royaume-Uni (Language Centre)", "address": "Cromwell Place 13, London", "price": "", "price_from": "14.00", "price_to": "14.00", "tickets_url": "https://cinelumiere.savoysystems.co.uk/CineLumiere.dll/TSelectItems.waSelectItemsPrompt.TcsWebMenuItem_600.TcsWebTab_601.TcsPerformance_6970736.TcsSection_6930861", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/drama/romance"], "description": "A French romantic drama in which Alain Delon plays Robert, a man nearly ruined by his drinking who latches onto a stranger-on-a-train, played by Nathalie Baye, hoping for stability, with each of them unsure who can tell reality from fantasy. Bertrand Blier directed and paired the two beloved French stars in this unconventional tale. Delon won a César for his acting, Blier for the screenplay, and Baye's captivating performance as the mysterious Donatienne was widely praised for its mesmerising versatility.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/our-story-74176/", "official_url": "https://www.institut-francais.org.uk/cinema/our-story/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/7430dcb3fbf2c7967e210085411bf9cb81a2223bd9311663c20712838fcddc98-2000.webp"}, {"title": "From Book to Screen", "start": "2026-11-05T10:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Institut français du Royaume-Uni (Language Centre)", "address": "Cromwell Place 13, London", "price": "£6/pupil or £3 film only & free for teachers", "price_from": "3.00", "price_to": "6.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.institut-francais.org.uk/from-book-to-screen-french-literary-adaptations-at-the-french-film-festival-london-2025/", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/drama/historical-drama", "history/wwii"], "description": "A full school day at the Institut français immersing pupils in French culture, with a linguistic or cultural activity in the morning and a film screening in the afternoon for school groups from Year 6 to Year 8. It is run by the Institut français du Royaume-Uni's Language Centre, whose School Activities Manager Agathe Morisse can be contacted for details. The morning offers a language activity around the French comic book Les Enfants de la Resistance or a library session on books adapted for the screen. In the afternoon pupils watch Les Enfants de la Resistance, Christophe Barratier's 2025 film with Gérard Jugnot, Artus and Lucas Hector, in which three brave children resist the Nazis in the heart of France during the German occupation in World War II.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/from-book-to-screen-74183/", "official_url": "https://www.institut-francais.org.uk/events-agenda/from-book-to-screen-3/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/05913a05b0404bdc39f75d9e360886c44f67154f3ab32f5cc3cab4046cf46c9f-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Jonah Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000", "start": "2026-11-02T20:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Garden Cinema", "address": "Parker Street 39-41, WC2B 5PQ London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.thegardencinema.co.uk/gifts/", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/drama", "literature"], "description": "A 50th-anniversary screening of Alain Tanner's 1976 Swiss film, shown as part of centenary celebrations for the writer John Berger. Co-written by Berger with the late Swiss director Tanner, it follows a disparate group of nonconformists and radicals from Geneva who gather at a rural retreat to reflect on the aftermath of May 1968 and what the future might hold. It stars Roger Jendly, Myriam Boyer, Jean-Luc Bideau and Miou-Miou, and is introduced by Gareth Evans. The screening is part of nationwide celebrations marking what would have been Berger's 100th birthday.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/jonah-who-will-be-25-in-the-year-2000-39228/", "official_url": "https://www.thegardencinema.co.uk/film/john-berger-at-100-jonah-who-will-be-25-in-the-year-2000/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/9309e77e5f43ad8bde09d589ee37235b3330b0ad3c503402d168b211c5a6710c-1200.webp"}, {"title": "The Blood Countess", "start": "2026-10-31T00:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Picturehouse Central", "address": "Great Windmill Street, W1D 7DH London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/horror/gothic-horror"], "description": "A screening of the film 'The Blood Countess', a spooky gothic romp following Countess Erzsébet Báthory, her loyal maid and her nephew Rudi Budi as they bend time and space in search of a mystical tome that threatens the vampire realm, pursued through Vienna and Bohemia by a police inspector and vampirologists. It was made by the legendary queer filmmaker Ulrike Ottinger, in her usual baroque, campy style mixing belly laughs, eroticism and outrageous fashion choices, and stars Isabelle Huppert as the infamous countess.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/the-blood-countess-37818/", "official_url": "https://www.picturehouses.com/movie-details/000/HO00018683/cff-the-blood-countess", "image": "https://noky.io/images/1911b35c767a270e4db59ff0311fa70b0c8b40d9243bb18837a102d6f0e1a64b-1200.webp"}, {"title": "À propos de Nice", "start": "2026-11-10T18:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Royal Academy of Arts", "address": "Piccadilly, W1J 0BD London", "price": "£20/£12", "price_from": "20.00", "price_to": "20.00", "tickets_url": "https://my.royalacademy.org.uk/53167/53168", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary", "history/20th-century"], "description": "This is a film screening of À propos de Nice, followed by a talk about 20th-century life in the French Riviera. The film was directed by Jean Vigo and Boris Kaufman, and is a 1930 documentary offering a provocative portrait of Nice, capturing both the luxury of the carnival on the promenade and the poverty of the working-class neighbourhoods. After the screening, historian Richard Vinen, who has taught at King's College London since 1991 and specialises in modern France and Europe, will discuss the Riviera's two competing realities: the sun-soaked playground of artists and aristocrats and the poverty of everyday life in the shadow of war and the Great Depression.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/a-propos-de-nice-38267/", "official_url": "https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/event/a-propos-de-nice", "image": "https://noky.io/images/a3006449cabd31b550b19bf14afa16b30e5a9eef05e4564eacbbca5927618af3-600.webp"}, {"title": "Amelie", "start": "2026-11-04T12:35:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Prince Charles Cinema", "address": "Leicester Place 7, WC2H 7BY London", "price": "From £11", "price_from": "11.00", "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://princecharlescinema.com/film/1870384/amelie-25th-anniversary", "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": "Benedetta", "start": "2026-11-12T12:20:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Prince Charles Cinema", "address": "Leicester Place 7, WC2H 7BY London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/drama/historical-drama"], "description": "Benedetta is a film directed by Paul Verhoeven, starring Virginie Efira, Lambert Wilson, Daphne Patakia, Olivier Rabourdin and Clotilde Courau. Set among the mystic reveries of a real-life historical figure, it gives the nunsploitation flick a high-art makeover. Elegant, perverse and teasingly scandalous, it critiques religious hypocrisy with an impish grin. The 2021 film runs 131 minutes.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/benedetta-64057/", "official_url": "https://princecharlescinema.com/film/22480264/benedetta", "image": "https://noky.io/images/440c25b2ad2052958cf884065c2a260156d80f7a0a4bcd59ca54b11f3d7583a6-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Making Marie Antoinette", "start": "2026-10-31T15:45:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Garden Cinema", "address": "Parker Street 39-41, WC2B 5PQ London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.thegardencinema.co.uk/gifts/", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary"], "description": "Making Marie Antoinette is a documentary built from eighty hours of footage shot in 2005 by Eleanor Coppola while she watched her daughter Sofia direct Marie Antoinette at the Palace of Versailles, the first production ever granted access there. Eleanor Coppola filmed the landmark production, Milena Canonero's costume work, and what it took for Sofia to direct at 34 under her mother's gaze. The footage went unseen for two decades, until, in fulfillment of her mother's wish, it became a film of its own, released as a tribute from Sofia and Roman Coppola. It works both as a behind-the-scenes look at an ambitious take on 18th-century French history and as a touching mother's observation of her daughter at work.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/making-marie-antoinette-39220/", "official_url": "https://www.thegardencinema.co.uk/film/making-marie-antoinette/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/9d7921a01335dc041edfa908aed9d16b22ac11c98e49c9e6c001d2d9426adeaa-1200.webp"}, {"title": "De Gaulle: Liberté", "start": "2026-10-31T13:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Phoenix Cinema", "address": "52 High Rd, London N2 9PJ, UK", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://cinelumiere.savoysystems.co.uk/CineLumiere.dll/TSelectItems.waSelectItemsPrompt.TcsWebMenuItem_600.TcsWebTab_601.TcsPerformance_7184604.TcsSection_3841519", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/drama/historical-drama", "history/france"], "description": "De Gaulle (Part 2): Liberté is a French film set in June 1940, when France collapses and signs the armistice, and an unknown general flees to London, alone and without an army, determined to save what remains of freedom. Directed by Antonin Baudry, it follows his struggle to convince the world that the battle for France is not lost, as resistance fighters, rebellious students and determined soldiers gradually rise up to join his cause. The cast includes Simon Abkarian, Benoit Magimel, Anamaria Vartolomei, Stephen Campbell Moore and Tom Mison.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/de-gaulle-liberte-69902/", "official_url": "https://www.institut-francais.org.uk/cinema/de-gaulle-liberte/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/007d09933df32318746d9b0ba58b6ad449f0a4e916ea89e92d4ee05276d2b3d1-2000.webp"}]}