A review of Kiki cropped up in the film section of the Guardian today, it's a film I have not seen since I was a teenager. Steve Rose points out that there is 'barely a male character in the film' something which I did not notice at the time. I think I will have to re-watch over the bank holiday weekend.
The plot is so loose as to barely exist, but beneath its sunny, colour-saturated, beautifully animated surface, the film becomes a benign guided tour of femininity (there’s barely a male character in the film), gently broaching universal coming-of-age issues such as independence, insecurity, and even – more boldly than any Western children’s movie would contemplate – sexuality.
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