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Turkish Classics Revisited

MY DREAM, MY LOVE, AND YOU
HAYALLERİM, AŞKIM VE SEN

• Director: Atıf Yılmaz
• TÜRKİYE / 1987 / DCP / Colour / 100’ / Turkish; English s.t.

• Screenplay: Ümit Ünal
• Director of Photography: Çetin Tunca
• Editing: Mevlüt Koçak
• Music: Esin Engin
• Art Director: Engin Ergönültaş
• Cast: Türkan Şoray, Oğuz Tunç, Müşfik Kenter, Engin İnal, Fatoş Sezer, Elif Yücesan, Cihat Tamer, Tuncay Akça
• Producer: Cengiz Ergun
• Production Co.: Odak Film
• World Sales: Odak Film

1988 Annaba Mediterranean Countries FF (Algiers) Best Actress
1987 Antalya Best Cinematogaphy, Best Actress, 3rd Best Film
1988 SİYAD Turkish Film Critics Association Best Film, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Encouragement Prize

‘Films, too, are born; they grow, and die; they are made of light, they light up and go out.’

Interpreted by cinema historian Agâh Özgüç as a film that ‘questions traditional Yeşilçam cinema through the eyes of a young and idealistic screenwriter’ and as a film in which ‘cinema looks at cinema,’ Hayallerim, Aşkım ve Sen / My Dream, My Love and You tells the story of a naive screenwriter’s infatuation with a celebrity actress in parallel with the Yeşilçam system and the environment that has begun to lose its former lustre. The film’s protagonist, screenwriter Coşkun, has been in love with the famous star Derya Altınay since his childhood. So much so that the fictional melodrama film heroines Nuran and Melek, who have opposite characters, have infiltrated the young man’s life. Coşkun has the opportunity to meet Derya; he pens an imaginary love story having her in mind, this script is eventually made into a film and Derya plays the lead role, but the resulting film is far from his expectations, mainly due to the intervention of the producers.

Featuring extraordinary performances by Türkan Şoray, who portrays her own image in Yeşilçam in three different and contrasting personalities, and Oğuz Tunç as a cinema enthusiast living with disappointment, Esin Engin’s emotionally intense score, and surrealistic elements, My Dream, My Love and You captures the magic of a forgotten era of cinema with a fragility and sensitivity unique to Atıf Yılmaz.

This collaboration between Atıf Yılmaz and Ümit Ünal was repeated a year later in another example of fantastic cinema, My Friend Satan.

From Ümit Ünal, who wrote the screenplay, to Atıf Yılmaz, the intense passion for cinema and the love for Beyoğlu (no matter how it is expressed) that permeates the characters of the film succeed in bringing tears to the eyes of the viewer. A very special film in every aspect, My Dream, My Love and You will always be remembered among the emotional, cult and original works of Turkish cinema.

This film was a Meetings on the Bridge participant.