Be with Me
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67 out of 100

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7.6 out of 10

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  • 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)

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5 out of 8
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 8
  3. Negative: 0 out of 8
  1. New York Post
    Reviewed by: V.A. Musetto
    75
    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.
  2. Chicago Tribune
    Reviewed by: Michael Wilmington
    75
    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").
  3. TV Guide
    Reviewed by: Ken Fox
    75
    Singaporean writer-director Eric Khoo's third feature is a beautiful, contemplative study of love -- unrequited, unfulfilled and reborn.
  4. The Hollywood Reporter
    Reviewed by: Duane Byrge
    60
    One terrific love story sandwiched between two mundane ones in this three-part look at love.

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  1. ConstanceT
    8
    Sparse and poignant. A touching little film.
  2. ChadS.
    8
    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
  3. DarylC.
    7
    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.… Expand

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