I saw Charlotte Sometimes on Saturday night and must say that the excellent reviews this thoughtful romantic story has received are richly deserved. It's one of the smartest and deepest films I've seen all year. The characters are so well-drawn and so real that they really stay with you. In the Q&A session afterwards, director/writer Eric Byle stressed his interest in character development over plot. These are characters that he's obviously lived with for a while. And in Charlotte Sometimes, he examines them patiently, slowly but there's some things about them that we will never know - just like in real life. It's a lot more mature approach to filmmaking and one that hearkens back to the great, character-driven movies of the 70s.