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Be with Me

Country: Singapore, Language: Chinese, 93 mins

  • Director: Eric Khoo
  • Writer: Theresa Poh Lin Chan; Eric Khoo
  • Producer: Gavin Chelvan; Brian Hong

CGiii Comment

3 unconnected stories with minimal dialogue and sleep-inducing music.

The critics loved it...inexplicable.

Slow, uncompelling - nothing special.

Some will be shocked that this hasn't been appreciated - but, to stay awake throughout the whole 90 minutes is akin to enforced sleep deprivation.

Apologies, but...art for art's sake - and all that - plot, dialogue, acting are somewhat important in movie-making.


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The(ir) Blurb...

"Be with me" consists of three stories of love vs. solitude : 1)An aging, lonesome shopkeeper doesn't believe in life any more since his wife died. But he is saved from desperation by reading an autobiographical book and meeting its author, a deaf and blind lady of his own age. 2)Fatty, a security guard in his fifties, lives for two things : good food and love for a pretty executive living in his block of flats. But, if it is easy to satisfy his first need winning the heart of the distant belle is a horse of another color. 3)Two teenage schoolgirls get to know each other on the Internet. Soon they fall in love.

Cast & Characters

Theresa Poh Lin Chan as Herself;
Chiew Sung Ching as Father;
Lawrence Yong as Son;
Leong Kooi Eng as Mother;
Elizabeth Choy as Herself;
Seet Keng Yew as Security Guard;
Lynn Poh as Ann;
Ng Sway Ah as Father;
Poh Huat Lim as Brother;
Sanwan Bin Rais as Security Supervisor;
Toh Cheng Onn as Neighbor;
Maximilan Wong as Neighbor's Son;
Ezann Lee as Jackie;
Samantha Tan as Sam;
Jason Tan as Brian