Have a Nice Day

Director: Liu Jian, Liu Jian

2017 / 77min / DCP

Liu’s second animated feature, the result of three diligent years at the drawing board, is a head-first dive into gangland lowlife that follows Xiao Zhang (voiced by Changlong Zhu), a construction worker who, while taking occasional courier jobs for a local mob honcho, decides one day to double-cross his boss and make off with a large amount of contraband cash intended to fix his fiancée’s botched plastic surgery, initiating a down-the-rabbit-hole chase that leads to some truly unexpected destinations. “Elegantly and wittily drawn… Coolly and cleverly allusive… Has real deadpan style and an offbeat sense of humor.”—The Guardian