Genre: Drama, Romance
Starring:
Ng Sway Ah
Theresa Poh Lin Chan
Samantha Tan
Ezann Lee
Seet Keng Yew
Release year: 2005
Language: Cantonese / English / Hokkien / Mandarin
Subtitle: English
SYNOPSIS:
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.
"Meant To Be" is about an aging provision shopkeeper grappling with loneliness. Just when he is about to give up hope, he chances upon an autobiography which changes his life. The autobiography in this story is real – it is the story of Theresa Chan, who plays herself and shares her remarkable life experience in the film.
"So In Love" is the bitter-sweet chronicles of two teenage girls in a love less ordinary. A chain of events spark off a flurry of SMS messages that will drastically rewrite the blueprints of their lives.
"Finding Love" follows the mundane life of a middle aged security guard who has two loves in life -- food and a high flying professional who works in the same building he does. The first he indulges in with great passion; the second, alas, he can only admire from afar. He decides to bridge the divide with a letter.
Unbeknownst to them, these different souls will share the same stage in a play written by Fate, one which involves the themes of love, tragedy, and redemption. The characters in the movie are fictitious except for Theresa Chan. Deaf and blind since she was 14, Theresa – who is now 61 – is a remarkable woman who has triumphed over her disabilities to live an amazing life. She is the film's beacon, a symbol of strength and hope.
RATING: 8.5/10
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REVIEW:
" Our notions of love are smudged with the false romance of beautiful people in commercials and the "soul mate" folderol that the media deluge us with. So sophisticated modern-day audiences may likely be initially mystified by this intelligent look at love through three very different relationships.
The opening-night film of the Directors' Fornight, "Be With Me" develops slowly, almost painfully so, but those mature viewers who stay with it will embrace a mature and stirring glimpse of "true love" in one of its three vignettes. Not likely to transpose commercially to U.S. select-site audiences, "Be With Me" should continue to woo international festival audiences with its keen illuminations on love.
Inspired by the autobiography of Theresa Chan, a 61-year-old deaf and blind woman, the film is almost silent: In two of its vignettes, the "lovers" connect only through the Internet or cell phone text, and in the third segment its lovers are a deaf and blind woman and an old man who is nearly mute. Indeed, this Singapore film is most eloquent in its look -- the sterility of the cell phone metropolis of modern-day life -- and its lack of dialogue is emblematic of the missed communications in these relationships. Most passionately, the love that slowly erupts between the old man and the blind and deaf woman resounds in the strength of its silent tenderness.
Two of the three vignettes are pat and, well, rather trite and off-putting: A sluggish, 37-year-old security guard obsesses over a teenage coquette, and a waifish lesbian essentially stalks the same lithe Lolita. Both segments are creepy and, alas, trashy. Yet, filmmaker Eric Khoo transcends the sordid glop of these two demi-vignettes with his third love yarn, a wondrously unlikely eruption of love between a depressed old store owner and a blind and deaf woman. It is wonderfully unlikely and wholly natural, all at once in large part because of the natural performances of Chiew Sung Ching as the old man and Theresa Chan playing herself as the deaf-blind woman.
As a filmmaker, Khoo is most accomplished in his visualizations rather than his scripting. In this regard, he is greatly assisted by the compositions and colorings of cinematographer Adrian Tan. Present-day Singapore is scoped in its shimmering modernity with a "Metropolis"-like squint, and Tan's subdued colorizations further clue us to the darkness as well as the less obvious hues of love. "
Source: The Hollywood Reporter
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