frances hodgson burnett's 1911 novel the secret garden has inspired several movies, ranging from a silentptation. now there's a new version in cinemas and on sky cinema, revisiting the novel's theme of the redemptive power of nature, which seems all the more relevant in these testing times. dixie egerickx is the recently orphaned mary, sent from india to live in england with her widowed uncle archibald, whose son colin has long been kept hidden and bedridden. but a buried key to a magical garden unlocks healing secrets, bringing about change and rebirth. screenwritten by the prolific jack thorne, whose recent credits include the aeronauts, radioactive and tv‘s the eddy, this update relocates the story from the turn of the 20th century to 1947, in the shadow of world war ii and partition. other significant changes include a more sympathetic portrait of mary's parents and the introduction of a ghostly climax which seemed to me to draw inspiration from the amazing mr blunden, one of my favourite movies of all time. cleaving closely to mary's subjective point of view, marc munden's update com

frances hodgson burnett's 1911 novel the secret garden has inspired several movies, ranging from a silentall the more relevant in these testing times. dixie egerickx is the recently orphaned mary, sent from india to live in england with her widowed uncle archibald, whose son colin has long been kept hidden and bedridden. but a buried key to a magical garden unlocks healing secrets, bringing about change and rebirth. screenwritten by the prolific jack thorne, whose recent credits include the aeronauts, radioactive and tv‘s the eddy, this update relocates the story from the turn of the 20th century to 1947, in the shadow of world war ii and partition. other significant changes include a more sympathetic portrait of mary's parents and the introduction of a ghostly climax which seemed to me to draw inspiration from the amazing mr blunden, one of my favourite movies of all time. cleaving closely to mary's subjective point of view, marc munden's update combines real locations like trebah in cornwall with cg visuals to evoke a magical garden that may be more a product of its heroine's imaginatio