Following a Berlinale premiere, the first trailer has arrived for Have a A Nice Day, a gritty, animated noir thriller from Jian Liu. The film follows a driver who steals a fat sum of cash from his boss so that he can help his girlfriend fix her failed plastic surgery. Unfortunately, he finds himself in too deep when a collection of rough sorts come after him for the dough. With slick, interesting animation and a hard-edged tone, Have a Nice Day looks to be a fascinating entry into the darker side of animation.
We said in our review, “It might not quite end on a satisfying note, but Have a Nice Day remains an urgent, thoroughly entertaining, and inventive piece of filmmaking, and one can only hope that it gets the release it deserves after doing the festival rounds. At one point we see Thin Skin behind the wheel of a car. He pops on the radio and we hear a snippet of one of Trump’s many post-election moments of vitriol. The ice cold killer just sighs and changes the channel. The cinema of animation is seldom quite so bad-ass.”
See the trailer below, along with a poster and synopsis, with a tip of the hat to Screen Anarchy.
Driver Xiao Zhang robs 1 million dollars from his boss in order to fix his girlfriend’s failed plastic surgery, but he is soon faced with a bigger predicament when a hitman, a gangster and a robber go after him and the money.
Have A Nice Day hasn’t been slated for a U.S. release yet, so stay tuned.