BFI London Film Festival: Bad Lucky Goat

BFI Film Festival: 243 features. 67 countries. 15 cinemas. 12 days. One Festival.

Two bickering teenagers are forced to put their differences aside when they accidentally hit a goat while running an errand for their father. Corn (Honlenny Huffington) and Rita (Kiara Howard) are in big trouble. Not only do they have to dispose of a dead goat, they also need to find a quick way of sorting out the damage to their father’s truck. That isn’t easy in a small town like the Port Paradise, where everyone knows everyone else’s business.

An entertaining series of mishaps and misunderstandings take place over a 24-hour period as the warring siblings try to cover up their misdeeds, while ignoring the sage advice of the town’s elders. This fresh and funny coming-of-age comedy by Samir Oliveros, shot in the native San Andrés–Providencia creole on the picturesque Caribbean island of Old Providence, delivers engaging performances from its two teenage leads and a fizzy plotline balancing the probable and the improbable to hilarious effect.

(Notes by Maria Delgado)

Bad Lucy Goat, dir. Samir Oliveros, Colombia 2017, 76 mins

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