Be with Me (2006)

Name: Be with Me (2006)
Duration: 1 h 33 min

1hr 33m

1hr 33m
3.5/5 (138)
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Produced by the gifted Marin Karmitz's MK2 Productions, Eric Khoo's omnibus film Be With Me encompasses three separate tales. All are concerned with the themes… More Details »

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Release Date:

Sep 29, 2006

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1hr 33m

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Produced by the gifted Marin Karmitz's MK2 Productions, Eric Khoo's omnibus film Be With Me encompasses three separate tales. All are concerned with the themes of love and fate, each centered around a character who yearns to be with another, beloved individual. In the first segment, Meant to Be, an elderly shopkeeper suffers from the pangs of loneliness until an encounter with the blind and deaf Theresa Chan (via her autobiography) changes his life; the 61-year-old Chan portrays herself in the segment and shares her story with the audience. The second, So in Love, chronicles the experiences of two teenage lesbians whose lives are about to change irrevocably. In the third, Finding Love, a middle-aged security guard (Seet Keng-Yew) divides his affections between food and an infatuation with a professional woman who works in his building. He feels too intimidated to approach the girl formally, but ultimately decides to make himself known with a letter. Be With Me co-stars Ezann Lee, Lynn Poh, Chiew Sung-Ching, and Samantha Tan.~ Nathan Southern, All Movie Guide

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3.5

Beautiful! I missed so much using that word accordingly. "Cinema is a visual art", this Singapore masterpiece by Eric Khoo screams at us suddenly with brief moments of the harshness of life, which can never be denied. You may argue with either the narrative structure (true,…

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Edgar Cochran ✝️🍋

Sep 18, 2021

Purely existing as a desperation of varied individuals to thrive and find the substantial essence of optimism in a city that overlooks the necessities of compassion and love, this existential irony from Singapore deals delicately with the adversities arising from the…

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Arighna

Aug 2, 2007

from my old blog (one day i’ll move all the posts over here😂😂😂) another great film movement film; this series is one of the best out there. period. at first, i thought this was gonna be another boring asian film with minimal dialogue, but once theresa's story emerges,…

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chutopia 2
Mar 27, 2015

____________________________________________________________________________ Bonus film for the March Around The World | 2015 Challenge ____________________________________________________________________________ This three-story film by director Eric Khoo was…

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TajLV

Aug 22, 2021

On the whole, Be With Me is a wonderful film by all accounts. Eric Khoo might be our closest thing to an auteurist filmmaker. I was in love with two of the three intertwining narratives, and the third, about real-life blind and deaf Theresa, didn't fall far behind either…

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Azrael

Oct 17, 2018

Dir. Eric Khoo 2005 | Singapore | Drama | 93 mins | M18 Khoo’s work here is oddly affective, finding the poetic in the mundane as stories of love and solitude come together in elliptical fashion. Full review: http://bit.ly/2CQePRJ

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Eternality Tan
Jun 29, 2025

First half should've been a separate short film honestly... three quietly intriguing stories that had me anticipating the next scene. I always love to see what films can do with very little dialogue in their screenplay, and it did go well throughout this half. Now when it…

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soy

Mar 17, 2018

I love the concept, but this one is a bit frustrating in its execution. The contrivance that brings the three storylines together is very strained. Theresa Poh Lin Chan is a very compelling figure, but the film sort of goes off on a tangent to explore her real life story.

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Muffintree

𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒎𝒖𝒔𝒊𝒄 𝒇𝒆𝒍𝒕 𝒍𝒊𝒌𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒑𝒐𝒔𝒆𝒓𝒔 𝒘𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒐𝒏𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒈𝒐𝒐𝒈𝒍𝒆𝒅 "𝒔𝒂𝒅 𝒑𝒊𝒂𝒏𝒐 𝒎𝒖𝒔𝒊𝒄" 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝒋𝒖𝒔𝒕 𝒔𝒂𝒎𝒑𝒍𝒆𝒅 𝒊𝒕. Based on and inspired by Theresa Poh Lin Chan's life, a blind and deaf teacher, her…

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Ben Yang