Review by philipposathina

Asli is a professionally ambitious young woman. And a new mother! She lives with her husband and her newborn daughter in a gorgeous apartment in a very high profile suburb of Istanbul. Her relationship with the young, simple and of a lower class origin woman and new mother as well who does the babysitting for her baby while she goes for her career, will help her cope and reconciliate with her own past as an abadoned child and her present as a mother herself.

A deeply moving masterpiece is the least i can say to describe the incredible emotional power of this film of the great Semih Kaplanoglu. In an unbelievable magical way the story unfolds the sentimental process within Asli through the incidents that occur between her, the babysitter and the baby itself which make her gradually see that things are not black and white and that understanding should prevail when it comes to judging about things around motherhood, a task that as it's finally clear to her, takes an auful lot of commitment and sacrifice.

The story flows in a most simple and unpretentious way, everything is portraited as convincing as in a documentary. It does not demand or tries to provoke any tears, yet the shocks and waves of emotion it brings are enormous just because of this. In other words, unlike most drama films "Baglilik Asli" just tells a simple story and let tears roll down the face just because this simple story is as deeply, sincerely and purely human as it gets!