The week's other continental offering, Alante Kavaite's Ecoute le temps, is a moderately entertaining occult thriller starring Emilie Dequenne (celebrated for her gut-wrenching performance in the Dardenne Brothers' grim Rosetta) as Charlotte, a movie sound engineer whose mother, a professional psychic, is murdered at her cottage in a dismal French small town. Almost everyone is a suspect, including the ineffectual local cop in charge of the case, and Charlotte embarks on her own investigation.

It turns out that using her recording equipment she can listen to the past, which complements her mother's gifts of looking into the future. Charlotte brings to mind the obsessive soundmen in Coppola's The Conversation and De Palma's Blow Out and, like most movies nowadays, there's a marginal ecological message. You keep on watching and wondering, but the picture barely rewards the attention one gives it.