In all, this little indie film is a quiet diversion, dealing more with what is not said than with just a script.”Ĭharlotte Sometimes – I so identify with this picture, and I have “sat” like this many times in my younger days. The lighting and settings are well chosen.

All four actors are beautiful, sensitive, and convincing.

Eugenia Yuan is the idiosyncratic girl-child, Jacquelyn Kim is the woman of mystery who with Matt Westmore plays more of a catalytic agent than a character. Michael Idemoto is perhaps the loneliest outwardly, but all four characters seem to crave connection and simply cannot attach. Eric Byler is to be commended for having the courage to keep this story simple – a tale of four personality ‘disorders’ and how they find the means to exist in this odd world. Michael, a young mechanic, is forced to choose between a daring tryst with an alluring stranger and the habitual comfort of his bittersweet obsession: his beautiful young tenant.Īmazon reviewer Grady Harp says “CHARLOTTE SOMETIMES is a nocturne of a film, a story that gently meanders through the lives of four people and with very few words says quite a bit about human relationships, about the cocoons we spin about ourselves for safety, for protection against fear, for hoping the chrysalis will metamorphose into a butterfly or moth. If she doesn’t figure out some way to get back to the world she knows before the end of the term, she might never have another chance.Īnother Charlotte Sometimesis a movie about a woman with multiple personalities Charlotte/Darcy. Her teachers think she’s slow, the other girls find her odd, and, as she spends more and more time in 1918, Charlotte starts to wonder if she remembers how to be Charlotte at all. And instead of having only one new set of rules to learn, she also has to contend with the unprecedented strangeness of being an entirely new person in an era she knows nothing about. In the months to follow, Charlotte wakes alternately in her own time and in Clare’s.

It’s natural to feel a little out of place when you’re the new girl, but when Charlotte Makepeace wakes up after her first night at boarding school, she’s baffled: everyone thinks she’s a girl called Clare Mobley, and even more shockingly, it seems she has traveled forty years back in time to 1918. Charlotte Sometimes is the title of a book, a movie not based on the book, and of a musician, not related to either of the others, as far as I can tell. The phrase has a rhythmic sound and an evoking image that resonates.Ī time-travel story that is both a poignant exploration of human identity and an absorbing tale of suspense.

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