Love, Bitter
5.8 /10 1 Votes
Director A. Taner Elhan Music director Fairuz Derin Bulut Duration | 5.6/10 IMDb Genre Drama, Romance Screenplay Onur Unlu Writer Onur Unlu | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date December 18, 2009 (2009-12-18) Initial release December 18, 2009 (Turkey) Cast (Oya Yilmaz Ataoglu), Halit Ergenç (Orhan Ataoglu), (Seda Uygun), (Ayse Derbent)Similar movies Onur Unlu wrote the screenplay for Love - Bitter and directed Five Cities |
Love bitter trailer
Love, Bitter (Turkish: Acı Aşk) is a 2009 Turkish drama film co-produced and directed by A. Taner Elhan, about a literature professor caught in a dangerous love quadrangle. The film, which went on nationwide general release across Turkey on December 18, 2009 (2009-12-18), was screened in competition at the 29th International Istanbul Film Festival.
Contents
- Love bitter trailer
- Love bitter offical teaser 1 with english subtitles aci ask
- Production
- Plot
- General release
- Festival screenings
- Box Office
- Reviews
- References

Love bitter offical teaser 1 with english subtitles aci ask
Production

The film was shot in 30 days beginning on July 24, 2009 (2009-07-24) at the Film Sokağı Studios and on location in Eskişehir and Istanbul, Turkey.
Plot
Orhan, who works as a literature professor at a university in Eskisehir (a city in Central Anatolia), unexpectedly ends his relationship with Ayşe whom he was planning to marry, and comes to Istanbul where he meets Oya. After living possibly the happiest days of his life with Oya, who is a photographer, Orhan finds himself in the midst of a challenging love triangle as a result of the horrible things they encounter the first days of their marriage. Meanwhile, his new student Seda, pulls Orhan towards a point of no return. Tough days are ahead for Orhan whose life is turned upside down, torn between three women.
General release
The film opened on general release in 74 screens across Turkey on December 18, 2009 (2009-12-18) at number six in the Turkish box office chart with an opening weekend gross of US$220,273.
Festival screenings
Box Office
The film was in the Turkish box office charts for eight weeks and has made a total gross of US$778,966.
Reviews
Emrah Güler, writing in Hürriyet Daily News, describes the film as, "similar to last week’s release of novelist-cum-filmmaker Tuna Kiremitçi's Adını Sen Koy (You Name It)", and states that, "this film portrays another love triangle of the upper-middle class and is set in Eskişehir." He concludes that, "the trailer promises lame a dialog [sic]", and he recommends the film to, "those who get a kick out of cardboard characters and far-from-subtle cliché romances as found in a recent avalanche of Turkish TV series."
References
Love, Bitter WikipediaLove, Bitter IMDb Love, Bitter themoviedb.org