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'If Quentin Tarantino remade Pulp Fiction as an animated movie set in modern day China, it might look something like Have a Nice Day.' – Indiewire
A desperate driver. A philosophical gangster. An ageing hitman. A bag of stolen money. Plus X-ray glasses! Have a Nice Day takes this recipe and runs with it, in this tale of Xiao Zhang, the driver who steals the fateful bag of money to help his girlfriend repair her botched plastic surgery, thus setting in motion a chain of chaotic events. As greed grips the citizens of this southern China ghost town and they fight to get their hands on the loot, the film spins into a magnetic portrait of destitution and the drive to escape it.
A funny, fresh and violent black comedy from director Liu Jian (2010's award-winning Piercing 1), Have a Nice Day debuted in competition at the Berlinale. With an eclectic ensemble of characters trying to get the upper hand on one another in the pursuit of the riches, Jian pulls back the curtain on a country struggling with the transition from communism to capitalism.
'At once a bloodthirsty genre thriller; a political statement about China, globalization and capitalism; and a vibrantly witty piece of postmodern pop art. In other words, it's like no Chinese film you've ever seen.' – Screen Daily
