Contemporary Turkish Cinema

Hayatımın Kadınısın / You Are the Woman of My Life

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In an interview with ntvmsnbc.com, Uğur Yücel, who directed Hayatımın Kadınısın (You Are the Woman of My Life) and shared the lead acting credit with Türkan Şoray, says the movie is about “two lonely people, İstanbul, its ordinary people, and Turkish movies. I wrote about the things that I’d missed. I felt the music of Esengül, Orhan Gencebay, Bergen and Turkish classical music while writing the script. I dreamed about the teary eyes on the still-smiling faces of housewives, arabesque, music, pulp fiction, and melodrama lovers while I was working on certain scenes. I made this film for the audience.” 

Asuman is a former singer who enjoyed fame in radio and tavern circles in the 1980s. She enthralled men more with her legendary beauty than her melancholic voice. Since abandoning her stage career, Asuman has gotten married. While her husband pursues his drinking and gambling habits, and her daughter from a previous marriage lives with her boyfriend in a hotel room dreaming of becoming a singer, Asuman leads an unremarkable and unhappy life in an old house in Balat, a district of İstanbul. One day Tayfur moves in as a tenant and Asuman’s life takes a complete turn. She cultivates her relationship with her daughter, figures out the really important things in life, recalls blissful memories from her past and begins to embrace life with a new passion.

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