75
TV Guide Magazine by Ken Fox
Singaporean writer-director Eric Khoo's third feature is a beautiful, contemplative study of love -- unrequited, unfulfilled and reborn.
Be with Me
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- Singapore
- 2005
- · 93m
Director
Eric Khoo
Cast
Theresa Poh Lin Chan,
Chiew Sung Ching,
Lawrence Yong,
Leong Kooi Eng,
Elizabeth Choy,
Seet Keng Yew
Genre
Drama,
Romance
An anthology of three stories of love and solitude: An aging, lonesome shopkeeper doesn't care about life since his wife died; a security guard in his fifties falls in love with a pretty executive living in his building; and two teenage schoolgirls get to know each other on the internet. Soon they fall in love.
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75
New York Post by V.A. Musetto
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.
75
Chicago Tribune by Michael Wilmington
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").
70
Chicago Reader by Andrea Gronvall
This elliptical, poetic movie is filled with yearning, humor, and warmth.
70
The New York Times by Stephen Holden
The fact that her story of triumph over unimaginable odds doesn't come freighted with mystical and religious bromides makes it all the more inspiring.
60
Village Voice by Michael Atkinson
Sometimes clumsy and dry, always sympathetic, and wryly interested in the impact food has on social intercourse, Be With Me is eventually affecting once its elliptical shape becomes clear.
60
Variety by Derek Elley
A curate's egg of a movie that starts intriguingly but becomes increasingly frustrating.
60
The Hollywood Reporter
One terrific love story sandwiched between two mundane ones in this three-part look at love.
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