Fresh
This elliptical, poetic movie is filled with yearning, humor, and warmth.
Andrea Gronvall, Chicago Reader
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Be with Me
Overview
Three tales of love wrap around the true story of a blind and deaf woman named Theresa Chan. In the first an elderly shopkeeper is devoted to his sick wife. In the second, two teenage girls become soul mates and lovers. In the third a chubby security guard tries to find the courage to woo a beautiful woman who works in his building.
Director and cast
- Eric Khoo Director
- Chiew Sung Ching as Father
- Theresa Poh Lin Chan as Herself (segment "Meant to Be")
- 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 (segment "Finding Love")
- Lim Poh Huat as Brother (segment "Finding Love")
- Sanwan Bin Rais Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
90%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Viewers' patience will be rewarded as the stories come together in a moving fashion.
V.A. Musetto, New York Post
Fresh
Although four stories are folded together in Eric Khoos elliptical film, it's the true story of a deaf and blind Singaporean woman that gives the movie its backbone.
Stephen Holden, New York Times
Fresh
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.
Michael Atkinson, Village Voice
Rotten
Pic's awkward combo of true life and fiction doesn't really work in a dramatically cohesive way, despite incidental pleasures and character vignettes.
Derek Elley, Variety
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