Be with Me

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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
Release dates
Running time
93 minutes
CountrySingapore
Languages
  • Cantonese
  • English
  • Hokkien
  • Mandarin

Be with Me is a 2005 Singaporean

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.[1]
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.[2]

Cast

Release

Be with Me premiered at the Director’s Fortnight selection of the 2005 Festival de Cannes.[2]

Reception

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."[4]

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."[5]

References

  1. ^ "Foreign Film Barred from Oscars", BBC News, BBC, December 23, 2005, retrieved April 8, 2012
  2. ^ a b Anomalilly (2019-04-19). "Film Review: Be With Me (2005) by Eric Khoo". Asian Movie Pulse. Retrieved 2022-09-08.
  3. ^
    ISSN 0362-4331
    . Retrieved 2022-09-08.
  4. ^ Ong, Sor Fern (7 September 2005). "A life less ordinary". The Straits Times. Singapore.
  5. The Business Times
    . Singapore.
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