Dul Bir Kadın (Widow Woman), the plot conclusion...
As Part 1 of Müjde Ar's Steamy Career indicates, Dul Bir Kadın is a story of repressed sexuality and betrayal of women... by men. Early in the film, Ayla (Nur Sürer) is dumped by her lover, a married man who can strum her like a guitar -- which turns her to drink and lands her, half-dead, in an Istanbul drunk tank. Then later, in Bodrum, the starry-eyed widow Müjde Ar (as Suna, who has mistaken lust for love) is betrayed by
her photographer paramour, Ergun (Yılmaz Zafer), when he successfully beds 'best' friend Ayla (and two other women) -- right under Suna's nose!
Müjde Ar - in a rut
Panting with desire, Suna (Müjde Ar) can't resist
the womanizing Ergun (Yılmaz Zafer) --
and the movie audience senses Suna's
breathless muffled reply when Ergun whispers,
'En çok neremi beğeniyorsun?'
('Which part of my body do you like best?') --
a phrase that Banu Alkan put to arousing effect
in her 1999 song hit Neremi, Nerimi.
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But Dul Bir Kadın is also a story of latent bisexuality... seen arising in Suna (Müjde Ar) and Ayla (Nur Sürer) -- which is depicted most effectively during the scenes of Ergun (Yılmaz Zafer) as he manipulates the women through a phantasmagoric photograph-shoot, in the lead-up to his deception of Suna with friend Ayla...
Prelude to Müjde Ar's Deception
Ergun (Yılmaz Zafer) toys with the two lovelorn women
in a dreamy photographic sequence that seems
to confirm their latent bisexuality.
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Later that evening after the photo-shoot, the trio go bar-hopping. As the wine takes effect, Ergun slow-dances 'lovingly' with both women at the same time -- pulling them close to him and to each other. But, when they return to the large hotel suite that they share, Ergun and Suna pair off -- and indulge their passions.
Next morning, Suna awakes with a big smile on her face. But, her happiness turns to dust, when, on her way to the loo, she catches sight of Ergun 'having it away' with best-friend Ayla in her separate bedroom.
Suna silently packs her bag, quietly leaves the couple making love -- and boards a bus to Antalya (where daughter İnci is visiting relatives). But, Ergun overtakes the bus in a taxi and brings Suna back.
They get drunk on Rakı and make rough love. Afterwards they fall into a funk -- and quarrel. Ergun tries to make up but Suna rebuffs him -- and goes out for a walk and a think. When she returns, she catches Ergun in bed with yet another woman (the 3rd besides Suna that he's openly bedded during the film) -- and Suna contemplates suicide.
Ergun makes a half-hearted attempt to entice Suna back, but she's fed up with him (finally) and tries to leave.
Ergun blocks her way, she slaps him, and he in turn slaps her 'til she bleeds. But Suna is saved from further abuse by the front door bell, when who should appear but the relative from Antalya... along with daughter İnci, who has been missing mother Suna intensely.
The kindly relative drives mother and daughter back to Antalya, where Ayla is waiting, hoping for Suna's forgiveness. Suna grants it unhesitatingly -- and the women embrace, giggling like children... 'straight' friends again.
A few days later, an oversized envelope from Ergun (Yılmaz Zafer) arrives. It contains enlarged photos of the phantasmagoric picture-shoot in Bodrum... which the women peruse wordlessly together.
Sobered by the memories that the pictures recall, Suna (Müjde Ar) and Ayla (Nur Sürer) take action to put those memories behind them by romping (a little too) gleefully with İnci in the Antalya house-garden... as a symbolic flock of doves take flight -- and SON rolls upon the screen.
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