The French Film Festival has ended for another year and the majority of this nation’s population can resume celebrating movies of a more British nature – and by that I exclusively mean dodgy gangster movies starring Vinnie Jones, sickeningly sweet romantic comedies with Hugh Grant, and edgy explorations of hooligan culture featuring Robert Carlyle as a ‘proper nuttah’ (oh, remember the days when he was Hamish MacBeth?).

Just because the banner-wavers of French cinema have left our shores, it doesn’t mean you should have to miss out on some excellent movies of a decidedly continental flavour.

Ecoute le Temps (also known by the English title of Fissures) is being shown tonight on Sky Arts. The film follows the story of Charlotte, a sound engineer who discovers that her equipment can pick up voices from the past – read more.