Be with Me

May 12, 2005

1h 33m

★ 6.2

Overview

Three tales of love wrap around the true story of a blind and deaf woman named Theresa Chan. In the first an elderly shopkeeper is devoted to his sick wife. In the second, two teenage girls become soul mates and lovers. In the third a chubby security guard tries to find the courage to woo a beautiful woman who works in his building.

Genres

Drama

Romance

Production Companies

Infinite Frameworks

Zhao Wei Films

Be with Me Trailers

Cast

Herself (segment "Meant to Be")

Theresa Poh Lin Chan

Father (segment "Meant to Be")

Chiew Sung Ching

Son

Lawrence Yong

Mother

Leong Kooi Eng

Herself

Elizabeth Choy

Security Guard

Seet Keng Yew

Ann

Lynn Poh

Father (segment "Finding Love")

Ng Sway Ah

Brother (segment "Finding Love")

Lim Poh Huat

Security Supervisor (segment "Finding Love")

Sanwan Bin Rais

Neighbor (segment "Finding Love")

Toh Cheng Onn

Neighbor's Son (segment "Finding Love")

Maximilian Wong

50-year-old Jim (Gerald Chew, "Apprentice", Cannes Film Festival 2016 Un Certain Regard) loses his high-flying job in status-conscious Singapore, but his ego and pride compel him to hide this from his wife (Amy J Cheng, "Crazy Rich Asians") and daughter. His only confidante is his best friend (Sivakumar Palakrishnan, "A Yellow Bird", Cannes Film Festival 2016 Critics' Week). Desperately clinging onto the material symbols of his past success, he unlocks a hibernating malevolent force, with sinister roots in long-buried secrets. As his dream life crumbles around him, worlds collide, the lines between then and now become increasingly blurred, and Jim descends into a waking nightmare. REPOSSESSION is a bold, genre-bending film, with an ever-evolving, haunting soundscape from Golden Horse Award-winning composer Teo Wei Yong ("A Land Imagined").

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