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Be With Me (2004)
Director: Eric Khoo
Movie review
From Time Out London
Inspired by the life of Theresa Chan, a deaf-blind 61-year-old whom director Eric Khoo met at a wedding three years ago, this portmanteau piece tracks a series of motifs (notably food and writing) through several stories of yearning without their cohering into anything compelling. Chan is the most striking presence, seen in both documentary and fictional modes as she provides an unfussily inspirational model of how to get on with things, from teaching youngsters handicrafts to cooking eggs. The other (entirely fictional) subjects, however, are far mopier: a widowed shopkeeper slowly shuts up for the night; two teenage girls embark on a drippy romance; a portly security guard pines for a go-getter in his office block. It mostly ends in tears, and the message of hope that’s meant to shine through is close to banal. The version I saw also had the annoying habit of providing subtitles for the various kinds of written English – on a typewriter, text messages etc – that punctuate the film.Author: Ben Walters
Time Out London Issue 1888: October 25-November 1
Cast & crew
Director: Eric Khoo
Producer: Brian Hong
Cast: Theresa Chan, Chiew Sung-Ching, Seet Keng-Yew, Ezann Lee, Samantha Tan, Lawrence Yong full cast
Duration: 93 mins
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