TAIPEI, TAIWAN –Romantic drama film with a record-breaking box office gross of PHP 880. 6 million, Hello, Love, Goodbye, is heading back to Taiwan starting February 14th, Valentine’s Day. This also marks the launch of ABS-CBN Global–The Filipino Channel’s partnership with VieShow Cinemas, one of Taiwan’s leading movie exhibitors.
The film labeled as the highest-grossing Filipino film of all time will be subtitled in Taiwanese to reach the local viewers. Hello, Love, Goodbye tells a story of Joy, a young migrant worker, whose primary reason for coming to Hong Kong maybe her family, but she will decide her choice to stay owns aspirations and brush with romance.
Moviegoers from Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, and Cambodia resounded how the film successfully portrayed the heroine’s drive to chase her dreams whilst still showing her vulnerability in various occasions that could be heartrending or entertaining.
Monet Lu of the Asian Journal describes the film as “not just another OFW movie” citing how the seasoned director Cathy Garcia-Molina could turn testimonies of overseas Filipinos with such truth from the light moments to the darker one. “It had more depth than I gave it credit for. The movie offers a compelling, detailed, compassionate look at the little-known lives, and hopes, of domestic workers, “says Lu.”
