Fissures (2007)
Charlotte, an alienated sound engineer, travels to the country home where her mother was just murdered. She is quickly frustrated by the lack of progress in the police investigation and so begins her own. While listening to a fresh sound recording she made in her mother's house, Charlotte discovers a strange phenomenon, she can hear sounds from the past in her headphones. Soon she is using this ability to hear the past to piece together the last few days of her mother's life, drawing ever closer to discovering who killed her, even as the murderer returns to try and eliminate Charlotte before they are discovered.
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Just perfect...
If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.
In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.
The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one
The sound engineer Charlotte (Émilie Dequenne) returns from Paris to her hometown in the countryside after the death of her mother, who was a clairvoyant card-reader and was murdered in her cottage. In the opinion of the police, the killer was one of her acquaintances since the house was not broke in. Charlotte feels hostility from her neighbors and decides to bug their house using her sound equipment. However she finds that inside her mother's house, there is a connection with the past and she can hear what happened there. Charlotte investigates the leads and discovers the truth about the death of her mother."Écoute le Temps" is a boring, messy and disappointing supernatural tale. The story is disclosed in a very slow pace, with a terrible development of the characters and no explanation why Charlotte hated her mother; or why she decided to stay in the countryside; or why she is able to hear the past in the living room of the cottage. The conclusion is also disappointing, without any explanation why the house collapses and a ridiculous last scene. I hope the reviews in IMDb are for real and not fake to promote this movie. My vote is three. Title (Brazil): "Vozes do Tempo" ("Voices of the Time")
After her mother's death, Charlotte, a sound engineer living in Paris, travels to her mother's cottage in the damp grey forested French countryside. Her mother was a clairvoyant who gave tarot readings to locals. At the cottage, Charlotte begins to untangle the recent events surrounding her mother's life and her death.The pace is slow by American standards, and this may irritate some. But what would one expect of a decent French movie which tends to focus as much on characters as on action. Émilie Dequenne (Charlotte) and the rest of the cast do a fine acting job. The thriller drips with atmospheric cinematography and has a beautiful, rustic, almost Gothic flavor. It is genuinely frightening in places.
I have NO IDEA what the other two reviewers are going on about! kosmasp's friend is clearly a fool who should go back to watching trashy action movies. Not only is the film fairly slow-paced (though not terribly so, if you're used to watching quality cinema and not just American rubbish), it also has subtitles, which requires reading - I bet he struggled with that one! As for writers reign: talk about PICKY! Why should there be any "indication that she has resigned from her career and returned to her childhood home on a permanent basis"? Her mother has just died! That's why she's a) returned to her childhood SUMMER home and b)why she's taken some time off work. If she's interested in sound, why shouldn't she own SOME recording equipment? Idiot.The ONLY thing I found annoying/distracting about this film is that (ironically for a film whose main protagonist is a sound-engineer) the microphone is visible in almost every shot (at least on my DVD copy - maybe it's something to do with the aspect ratio). Nevertheless, a very decent film and well worth the less-than-90mins of your life it will take to watch.
This movie might not be the cup of tea for you. Let me explain. The supernatural nature of the movie is not the main thing that might distract or even repel some viewers. It's more likely, that they won't have the nerve sitting through the movie. Which happened with the person I saw this with ...The pace of the movie, was just too slow for my friend, so he was so angry, he actually wanted his "time" back that he lost, during the movie. I believe he wasn't in the right frame of mind for this movie. Not that I do consider this a classic, but it has it's qualities. The story for once (not the most original, but still nice) and the slow pace. Although predictable, it still is worth a watch, if you're a fan of supernatural movies/themes!