Be with Me

Name: Be with Me
Genre: Drama, Romance
Released: September 29, 2006
Duration: 93 min
Rating: 67

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Film Movement | Release Date: September 29, 2006

Summary: Be With Me is a tapestry of three stories woven around the themes of love, hope and destiny. Although the main characters come from different backgrounds and lead different lives, they all long to be with their loved one. (Film Movement)

Director: Eric Khoo

Genre(s): Drama, Romance

Runtime: 93 min

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TV Guide Magazine Ken Fox

Singaporean writer-director Eric Khoo's third feature is a beautiful, contemplative study of love -- unrequited, unfulfilled and reborn. Read full review

V.A. Musetto

It might take a while to figure out what is happening, because Khoo provides no expository dialogue. But viewers' patience will be rewarded as the stories come together in a moving fashion. Read full review

Michael Wilmington

A delicately crafted, gently inflected, lovely little movie about the need for love, directed and co-written by Singapore's Eric Khoo ("Mee Pok Man"). Read full review

Andrea Gronvall

This elliptical, poetic movie is filled with yearning, humor, and warmth. Read full review

Michael Atkinson

Sometimes clumsy and dry, always sympathetic, and wryly interested in the impact food has on social intercourse, Be With Me is eventually affecting once its elliptical shape becomes clear. Read full review

Derek Elley

A curate's egg of a movie that starts intriguingly but becomes increasingly frustrating. Read full review

Duane Byrge

One terrific love story sandwiched between two mundane ones in this three-part look at love. Read full review

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ConstanceT

Aug 9, 2009

Sparse and poignant. A touching little film.

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ChadS.

Apr 23, 2007

When "Be With Me" switches from fiction to non-fiction in midstream, it brings the modest multi-story film to a grinding halt. "Who does this filmmaker think he is," you ask yourself, "Hou Hsiao-Hsein?"(the same jarring mindf*** occurs in "The Puppetmaster") "Be With Me" is essentially When "Be With Me" switches from fiction to non-fiction in midstream, it brings the modest multi-story film to a grinding halt. "Who does this filmmaker think he is," you ask yourself, "Hou Hsiao-Hsein?"(the same jarring mindf*** occurs in "The Puppetmaster") "Be With Me" is essentially hijacked by a digression; the teen lesbian, the zaftig stalker, and the old man who loses his wife, are all held in narrative limbo while Theresa(Theresa Chan) tells the story about her trials and tribulations as a real life-Helen Keller(Theresa is deaf and blind). It's a miracle, indeed, that "Be With Me" survives the risk-taking gambit of seeing actual excerpts from Chan's memoir being transcribed onto digital video. Her narration is silent; "Be With Me" pulls off the audacious stunt of making its audience read(not subtitles, mind you; but her actual voice expressed as you'd find it in a book). When "Be With Me" picks up where it left off, Chan enters one of the film's narratives, which leads to an emotional payoff that no major studio(or independent film for that matter) can match. This unsung filmmaker also wields his cinematic wizardry by using black humor and irony to tie up the remaining two stories. "Be With Me" is like a moving caterpillar, and then you're bored to tears because the film goes into a cocoon of sorts(seriously, Chan's story without the benefit of a context is embarassing in its earnestness), but then the fiction emerges from the hijack a little gussied-up, as metafiction, and seriously, the hibernation is worth the wait. "Be With Me" is transformed into a butterfly.… Expand

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DarylC.

Jan 21, 2007

Whilst not being the perfect film, khoo's film remains a gentle and moving exploration of the various incarnations of love. An important step in the development of singapore's film making industry.

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