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Your Story (Senin Hikayen)

Your Story (Senin Hikayen)

Movie · 2013 · 9 people

A warm story about marriage and having children, Senin Hikayen (Your Story) joins drama and comedy in a Turkish family film made in 2013. Released on December 27, 2013, it runs 109 minutes. Tolga Örnek directed it from his own screenplay for TAFF Pictures. Timuçin Esen and Selma Ergeç share the leads, with Nevra Serezli and Sait Genay.

Hakan and Esra, both in their thirties, are in the seventh year of their marriage and still passionately attached. Esra has a good career at a private company and has even received a job offer from abroad. Hakan owns a music studio and keeps the household going with advertising and film jobs. This balanced life is shaken when Hakan's mother Meral shows signs of cancer. Accepting treatment, Meral is determined not to leave without seeing a grandchild, yet the couple are unsure about children, and Esra is torn between her career and motherhood. Life then has a lovely surprise for both.

Örnek trained in cinema in America and began making documentaries in the 1990s, becoming known for Gelibolu, then made Devrim Arabaları, based on a real event. The director of Kaybedenler Kulübü, he had last stepped behind the camera on Labirent.

DirectorTolga Örnek
Production companyTAFF Pictures
Your Story (Senin Hikayen) Your Story (Senin Hikayen)

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İdil Fırat İdil Fırat Actor · 54 years old Murat Serezli Murat Serezli Actor · 57 years old Nevra Serezli Nevra Serezli Actor · 82 years old Sait Genay Sait Genay Actor · 73 years old Selma Ergeç Selma Ergeç Actor · 48 years old Esra Timuçin Esen Timuçin Esen Actor · 53 years old Hakan Yeşim Ceren Bozoğlu Yeşim Ceren Bozoğlu Actor · 52 years old Dr. Derya Alper Kut Alper Kut Actor · 64 years old Levent Can Levent Can Actor · 55 years old

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Family Viewer Asks whether the whole household can watch it; cares about humor and heart.

A warm film about family values, marriage and having children. Drama and comedy are well balanced, with moments that make you laugh alongside the touching ones. The mother's illness may sadden children a little, but the overall mood is hopeful. It suits grandparents and parents watching together. Couples with children, or thinking about them, will recognize a lot of themselves in it.

Yeşilçam Nostalgic A viewer raised on the classics, looking for warm storytelling and strong acting.

Senin Hikayen retells, in today's language, the old themes Yeşilçam loved: family, marriage and love across generations. A mother determined not to pass away before seeing a grandchild recalls the devoted mothers of the old films, and it is a particular pleasure to see Nevra Serezli in the cast. Timuçin Esen and Selma Ergeç make a convincing couple. It is a gentle film, free of crude humor. Still, the story is at times too sweet and predictable; it could have looked life's bitter side in the eye a little more bravely.

Cinephile Looks at script, editing and directing choices; keeps a distance from formula films.

After works like Gelibolu and Devrim Arabaları, Tolga Örnek's turn to a small-scale family story is an interesting choice. A woman torn between career and motherhood, an ailing mother and the dilemma over children: the script brings these conflicts together in a tidy structure. But the shifts between drama and comedy are sometimes rough, with the tone jumping too easily from a serious illness to light scenes. The conflicts are also smoothed over before they deepen enough. Within the 109 minutes some connecting scenes feel superfluous. A bolder structure might have been expected from Örnek, who wrote his own script; still, it is a decently crafted family film.

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