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Alden Richards, Cathy Garcia-Molina, film criticism, Hello Love Goodbye, highest grossing film, Kathryn Bernardo, philippine cinema, popular cinema, Review, romance
As Hello, Love, Goodbye becomes the highest-grossing Filipino film of all time, it is essential to examine the elements of its success. In so doing, we have to look at the trends in the popular cinema in the Philippines. In this video essay, we argue that #HelloLoveGoodbye is a pastiche – an imitation of various film styles, techniques, and narratives that worked in the past.