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<h2 id="cast">Cast</h2> <ul><li>Ng Sway Ah as Father</li> <li>Sanwan Bin Rais as Security Supervisor</li> <li><a href="/facts/Theresa_Poh_Lin_Chan/duIoDLk3">Theresa Poh Lin Chan</a> as herself<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3"><sup>3</sup></a></li> <li>John Cheong Puk Fai as Sam's father</li> <li><a href="/facts/Elizabeth_Choy/1Cvo910w">Elizabeth Choy</a> as herself</li> <li>Leong Kooi Eng as Mother</li> <li>Lim Poey Huang as Jackie's mother</li> <li>Seet Keng Yew as Fatty Koh</li> <li>Shaun Koh as Sam's brother</li> <li><a href="/facts/Ezann_Lee/1y0K4Rew">Ezann Lee</a> as Jackie<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:4" href="#fn:4"><sup>4</sup></a></li> <li>Poh Huat Lim as Brother</li> <li>Sherry Lim as Sam's mother</li> <li>Toh Cheng Onn as Neighbour</li> <li>Lynn Poh as Ann<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:5" href="#fn:5"><sup>5</sup></a></li> <li>Chiew Sung Ching as Shopkeeper</li> <li>Jason Tan as Brian</li> <li><a href="/facts/Royston_Tan/cjwArs8N">Royston Tan</a></li> <li>Samantha Tan as Sam<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:6" href="#fn:6"><sup>6</sup></a></li> <li>Maximilan Wong as Neighbour's son</li> <li>Lawrence Yong as Son<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:7" href="#fn:7"><sup>7</sup></a></li> <li>Seet Keng Yew as Security Guard<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:8" href="#fn:8"><sup>8</sup></a></li></ul> <h2 id="release">Release</h2> <p><i>Be with Me</i> premiered at the Director’s Fortnight selection of the 2005 Festival de Cannes.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:9" href="#fn:9"><sup>9</sup></a> </p> <h2 id="reception">Reception</h2> <p>Ong Sor Fern of <i><a href="/facts/The_Straits_Times/Wm8qdjPf">The Straits Times</a></i> 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."<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:10" href="#fn:10"><sup>10</sup></a> </p><p>Geoffrey Eu of <i><a href="/facts/Business_Times_(Singapore)/T9qyQRaK">The Business Times</a></i> 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."<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:11" href="#fn:11"><sup>11</sup></a> </p> <h2 id="external-links">External links</h2> <ul><li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20051001012744/http://zhaowei.com:80/bewithme.html">Official website</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0463903/"><i>Be with Me</i></a> at <a href="/facts/IMDb_(identifier)/uWrqVYVy">IMDb</a></li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>"Foreign Film Barred from Oscars", BBC News, BBC, December 23, 2005, retrieved April 8, 2012 <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/4555152.stm" target="_blank">http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/4555152.stm</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>Anomalilly (2019-04-19). "Film Review: Be With Me (2005) by Eric Khoo". Asian Movie Pulse. Retrieved 2022-09-08. <a href="https://asianmoviepulse.com/2019/04/film-review-be-with-me-2005-by-eric-khoo/" target="_blank">https://asianmoviepulse.com/2019/04/film-review-be-with-me-2005-by-eric-khoo/</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>Holden, Stephen (2006-09-29). "Three Tales Revolving Around a Real Life". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2022-09-08. <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/29/movies/29with.html" target="_blank">https://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/29/movies/29with.html</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:4"><p>Holden, Stephen (2006-09-29). "Three Tales Revolving Around a Real Life". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2022-09-08. <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/29/movies/29with.html" target="_blank">https://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/29/movies/29with.html</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:5"><p>Holden, Stephen (2006-09-29). "Three Tales Revolving Around a Real Life". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2022-09-08. <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/29/movies/29with.html" target="_blank">https://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/29/movies/29with.html</a> <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:6"><p>Holden, Stephen (2006-09-29). "Three Tales Revolving Around a Real Life". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2022-09-08. <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/29/movies/29with.html" target="_blank">https://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/29/movies/29with.html</a> <a href="#fnref:6" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:7"><p>Holden, Stephen (2006-09-29). "Three Tales Revolving Around a Real Life". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2022-09-08. <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/29/movies/29with.html" target="_blank">https://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/29/movies/29with.html</a> <a href="#fnref:7" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:8"><p>Holden, Stephen (2006-09-29). "Three Tales Revolving Around a Real Life". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2022-09-08. <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/29/movies/29with.html" target="_blank">https://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/29/movies/29with.html</a> <a href="#fnref:8" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:9"><p>Anomalilly (2019-04-19). "Film Review: Be With Me (2005) by Eric Khoo". Asian Movie Pulse. Retrieved 2022-09-08. <a href="https://asianmoviepulse.com/2019/04/film-review-be-with-me-2005-by-eric-khoo/" target="_blank">https://asianmoviepulse.com/2019/04/film-review-be-with-me-2005-by-eric-khoo/</a> <a href="#fnref:9" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:10"><p>Ong, Sor Fern (7 September 2005). "A life less ordinary". The Straits Times. Singapore. <a href="/wiki/The_Straits_Times" target="_blank">/wiki/The_Straits_Times</a> <a href="#fnref:10" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:11"><p>Eu, Geoffrey (9 September 2005). "Tales of love, lovingly told". The Business Times. Singapore. <a href="/wiki/Business_Times_(Singapore)" target="_blank">/wiki/Business_Times_(Singapore)</a> <a href="#fnref:11" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>