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Be with Me
Theatrical release poster
Directed byEric Khoo
Written byTheresa Poh Lin Chan
Eric Khoo
Wong Kim Hoh
Produced byBrian Hong
StarringTheresa Poh Lin Chan
Samantha Tan
Ezann Lee
Seet Keng Yew
CinematographyAdrian Tan
Edited byLow Hwee-Ling
Music byKevin Mathews
Christine Sham
Production
company
Zhao Wei Films
Distributed byWarner Bros. Pictures[1]
Release dates
Running time
93 minutes
CountrySingapore
Languages

Be with Me is a 2005 Singaporean drama film directed by Eric Khoo. The film is inspired by the life of deafblind teacher Theresa Poh Lin Chan. It premiered as the Director's Fortnight selection in the 2005 Cannes Film Festival. It was also the official entry from Singapore for the 78th Academy Awards in the foreign language category. In December 2005, the academy body disqualified the film on grounds that the dialogue is mainly in English.[2] Out of 93 minutes, the film only has two and a half minutes of dialogue.

Be with Me is the first film in Singapore to explicitly feature a lesbian relationship.[3]

Cast

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  • Ng Sway Ah as Father
  • Sanwan Bin Rais as Security Supervisor
  • Theresa Poh Lin Chan as herself[4]
  • John Cheong Puk Fai as Sam's father
  • Elizabeth Choy as herself
  • Leong Kooi Eng as Mother
  • Lim Poey Huang as Jackie's mother
  • Seet Keng Yew as Fatty Koh
  • Shaun Koh as Sam's brother
  • Ezann Lee as Jackie[4]
  • Poh Huat Lim as Brother
  • Sherry Lim as Sam's mother
  • Toh Cheng Onn as Neighbour
  • Lynn Poh as Ann[4]
  • Chiew Sung Ching as Shopkeeper
  • Jason Tan as Brian
  • Royston Tan
  • Samantha Tan as Sam[4]
  • Maximilan Wong as Neighbour's son
  • Lawrence Yong as Son[4]
  • Seet Keng Yew as Security Guard[4]

Release

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Be with Me premiered at the Director's Fortnight selection of the 2005 Festival de Cannes.[3]

Reception

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Khoo and Wong Kim Hoh won best screenplay at the Flanders International Film Festival.[5]

Ong Sor Fern of The Straits Times rated the film 4 stars out of 5 and wrote, "The way Khoo has marshalled his technical skills in the service of more characterisation and story marks a new stage in his development."[6] Geoffrey Eu of The Business Times gave the film a rating of "B-" and wrote that "Chan's story overwhelms everything else around it and the result is a film that is elegant but uneven in tempo - the soft-edged style is there in abundance, but the movie's progress is perhaps not as smooth as it could be."[7]

References

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  1. ↑ Osborne, Magz (11 September 2005). "Distribs hungry for 'Be With Me'". Variety. Retrieved 31 May 2025.
  2. ↑ "Foreign Film Barred from Oscars", BBC News, BBC, 23 December 2005, retrieved 8 April 2012
  3. 1 2 Anomalilly (19 April 2019). "Film Review: Be With Me (2005) by Eric Khoo". Asian Movie Pulse. Retrieved 8 September 2022.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Holden, Stephen (29 September 2006). "Three Tales Revolving Around a Real Life". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 8 September 2022.
  5. ↑ Cendrowicz, Leo (25 October 2005). "Jones' 'Burials' wins latest kudos at Flanders". The Hollywood Reporter. p. 54.
  6. ↑ Ong, Sor Fern (7 September 2005). "A life less ordinary". The Straits Times. Singapore.
  7. ↑ Eu, Geoffrey (9 September 2005). "Tales of love, lovingly told". The Business Times. Singapore.
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