The Grapes of Wrath review " Steinbeck's dustbowl refugees find no relief by Lyn Gardner

Nuffield, SouthamptonSome impressive visual moments fail to rescue this ambitious adaptation from its intrusive use of music, cumbersome design and lack of momemtumIt begins with the plaintive sounds of a saw being played by a man whose face " a cragged rock of sorrow and loss " is pierced by light. It ends with a starkly simple act of compassion as a grief-stricken woman feeds a starving man. In between, there are i…

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