Gift for tamcranver by condnsdmlk (The Secret Garden)

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Title of vid: Return to | of | from
Recipient: tamcranver
Vidder: condnsdmlk
Fandom: The Secret Garden (1993)
Music: Comptine d`un autre été - l`après-midi by Yann Tiersen
Summary: Where you tend a rose a thistle cannot grow.
Content notes: No standardized notes apply
Signed length: 02:38
Signed URL: http://condnsdmlk.livejournal.com/13521.html

Comments

[isweedan]

Lovelyyyyyy <3

[condnsdmlk]

Thank you!! <3<3

[cupidsbow]

Such a gorgeous vid. Beautifully done.

[condnsdmlk]

Thanks so much, I'm glad you liked it :)

[tamcranver]

Oh, this is so lovely! I love the framing of it, how it starts with Mary alone and excluded in the darkness of the train station and ends in her being embraced and included in her family on the moors--it makes her character arc clear and touching. I really like the bit at around 0:39 where Mary pulls aside the tapestry and it switches over to Martha--I love Martha in this, and how clear it is that Martha’s affection is such a important thing and such a huge starting point for Mary. And the garden! You make such good use of all the beautiful shots of the garden coming alive that the movie provides, and I love how that’s intertwined with Mary’s growing relationship with Dickon, and how you show the empty swing and then return to it later when Mary and Colin and Dickon are happy and having fun. This was really such a treat, and just what I was looking for from this movie. Thank you so much!

[condnsdmlk]

Thank you, I am so glad that you liked the vid and that it was what you were looking for! That makes me very happy <3<3

And it was a great treat for me to vid this, I've loved the film for such a long time, I'm glad you requested it :D

[no_detective]

So very beautiful, and so touching <3

[condnsdmlk]

Thank you! I'm glad you like the vid <3

[kiki_miserychic]

I really like the progression of this and the ultimate "happy ending."

[condnsdmlk]

Thank you :)
I'm glad you liked it. I must say it was quite nice to vid something with a happy ending for once, that doesn't happen very often ;)

[winterevanesce]

I really love this! It's so beautiful

[condnsdmlk]

Thanks so much! I'm glad you liked the vid :)

[anoel]

This is absolutely beautiful, the narrative comes across so clear and the end gave me so many feels.

[condnsdmlk]

Thank you! Always good to hear I've inspired feels in others too, that is the ultimate goal :D
<3<3

[rachelmanija]

Beautiful vid. That brings back so many feelings. I saw that movie in the theatre, and I was a sobbing wreck for the entire las thirty minutes.

[condnsdmlk]

Thank you so much! This was such a lovely film - I saw it at the cinema too (what feels like forever ago now) - and it was a joy to vid. <3

[fairestcat]

Oh, *HEARTS*

[condnsdmlk]

<3<3
I'm so glad you liked it!

[stultiloquentia]

This is so elegantly composed. I love it.

[condnsdmlk]

Thank you, I'm really glad you liked it! "Elegantly composed" is high praise indeed:D

[ghost_lingering]

Awww, this was so sweet. And a perfect song for the source!

[condnsdmlk]

Thank you! I'm glad you liked it:D

[usuallyhats]

This is magical!

[condnsdmlk]

Thank you!! I'm so glad you liked it. <3

[echan]

Very cute and sweet and adorable

[condnsdmlk]

Thanks so much, I'm glad you liked it :)

[sasha_feather]

Beautiful. :D

[condnsdmlk]

:D I'm so glad you liked it, thank you. <3

[purplefringe]

This is so delicate and beautiful and poignant <3 I have a lot of nostalgic feelings for this film, and this vid tapped in to all of them. Wonderful choice of music too.

[condnsdmlk]

Thanks so much! I've always wanted to vid something from the Amélie soundtrack and I just knew it would fit The Secret Garden perfectly. I'm glad you approve :D <3<3

[chaila]

This is just so gentle pretty and perfect for this story.

[condnsdmlk]

Thank you :D I'm really glad you liked it and felt it fit the story well! <3

[valoise]

Touching and sweet.

[condnsdmlk]

Thank you ! I'm so glad you liked it :)

[leanwellback]

Ohhh that was beautiful, I'm so full of emotions now ;__; Absolutely gorgeous editing. The bit with all the flowers blooming was just perfect.

[condnsdmlk]

Yay!I'm so glad you liked it and that it inspired feels :D
Thank you <3<3

[felis]

Beautiful. <3

[condnsdmlk]

Thanks so much, I'm glad you liked it :)

[sanguinity]

The wordless music was lovely and evocative (and let grrlpup narrate the whole story to me while we watched!)

[condnsdmlk]

That sounds like an excellent way to watch a vid :D
I'm so glad you liked it, thank you. <3

[sanguinity]

It was. Usually when one of us has to tell the other why a thing in a vid matters, there's a whole lot of stopping and starting, and it's very confusing and unsatisfying and time-pressured for the first several watches.

But this was lovely from the first time out, with her giving happy little sighs and telling me about the thing that you'd done that had made her happy, without either of us having to interrupt the flow of it.

I mean, this is probably not why you chose to go wordless? But for this pair of viewers, it worked out beautifully. :-)