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Check
out the 24th San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival happening right now. A Singaporean film by Eric Khoo, "Be With Me"
is showing on Tuesday, Mar 21.
The pictures below are promotional images from the film. Click
here to buy tickets!
San Francisco Premiere
Singapore 2005 | 90 mins | Color 35mm | English, Hokkien, Mandarin w/E.S.
Eric Khoo (MEE POK MAN, SFIAAFF '96), one of Singapore's most influential filmmakers and a father figure to the country's entertainment industry, returns to the screen with BE WITH ME. In development for more than a year but taking only sixteen days to shoot, the film is a minimalist yet overwhelming tale of love, hope and destiny. A fascinating minuet of three stories that gently dance around the theme of longing for a loved one, BE WITH ME intelligently blends fiction with re-enactments of real-life experiences inspired by the autobiography of Theresa Chan. Deaf and blind since the age of fourteen, Theresa walks through life beaming strength and joy and, playing herself here, fills the screen with a toweringly positive aura.
Khoo depicts vibrant inner landscapes with solid, evocative imagery and often with text, rejuvenating the familiar convention of silent film for a latterday use. Almost devoid of dialogue, BE WITH ME entrusts its powerful narrative to letters, written memories and synthesized, fragmented mobile phone text messages, thus creating an unusually literary style of cinematic storytelling. These articulations of love and desire, dismay and abandonment, are the essential voices of the film's lonely characters and the subtext of this challenging chronicle of yearning and the inability to communicate. These words are the clarion call of the emotionally languishing, to whom this film seems dedicated.
http://www.asianamericanfilmfestival.org/films/film_detail.php?i=15
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