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Have a Nice Day

Hao ji le (Have a Nice Day)

2017

Liu Jian

Animation

5.0

391

Animation. Drama A city in southern China and a bag containing a million yuan draws several people from diverse backgrounds with different personal motives into a bloody conflict. Philosophising gangster bosses, ageing hitmen, men and women who are tired of the struggle to survive – anyone who happens to have the bag holds on to it tightly, as if it were a lifeline. Hao ji le is a black comedy; the film’s inscrutable, laconic humour holds up a ... [+]

	Media	Author	Review
		Jessica Kiang Variety	"Liu’s storyline may be a slight and generic madcap gangster/hitman/thief movie, but the details of aesthetic design and character interaction flesh it out into something a little more wittily resonant, if not exactly deep."
		Jeannette Catsoulis The New York Times	"Leisurely and deliberate, intelligent and casually cruel (...) The animation has a style and restraint all its own"
		Ignatiy Vishnevetsky AV Club	"Perhaps the best way to portray life under rapid development and globalization is through the lens of the absurd."
		Boyd van Hoeij The Hollywood Reporter	"[It] feels distinctly different from more mainstream Asian animated fare (...) short but fascinating"
		Eric Kohn IndieWire	"The vivid palette of Liu’s animation conveys a comic book-like exuberance to the proceedings, but the underlying socioeconomic frustration is very real."
		Jonathan Romney Screendaily	"This is a stunning, provocative work that will get animation buffs buzzing"
		Carlos Aguilar Cartoon Brew	"One of the most refreshing animated offers of 2018 (...) A fantastic example of boundary-pushing animation employed to tell mature stories."

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