Film

Have a Nice Day

Director
Liu Jian
Certificate
15
Running Time
78 mins

In a desperate attempt to find money to save his fiancée’s failed plastic surgery, truck driver Xiao Zhang pilfers a shitload of his boss’s cash. News of the robbery spreads fast within the town and, over the course of one night, everyone starts looking for Xiao Zhang and his swag…

Described by one critic as resembling Pulp Fiction as remade by Quentin Tarantino in modern-day China, Liu Jian‘s noir-ish animated underworld black comedy has not been entirely popular with the authorities back home but has proven a hit on the international festival circuit.

By robin askew, Monday, Mar 5 2018

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