the rare fantasy, based on 魔女の宅急便, phonetically Majo no Takkyūbin, in english 'Witch's Express Home Delivery written by Eiko Kadono. Kadono at the time of this rmnewsletter edition is ninety years old.
The review focuses on one thing, that is why I am a Kiki fan. The film's story is uncommonly balanced, not the good vs evil dichotomy, but the total human existence. Like a number of Studio Ghibli films: "Whisper of the Heart" or "The Wind Rises" for example, the action is minimal, and the Christian duopoly is nonexistent, and I recall my own youth, amongst black folk in this black place in a white city, the most.