Feast of July
R, 118 min.
Directed by Christopher Menaul, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Embeth Davidtz, Tom Bell, Gemma Jones, James Purefoy, Greg Wise, Kenneth Anderson, Ben Chaplin.

Not reviewed at press time. Based on the acclaimed novel by H.E. Bates, this Merchant-Ivory production is a British drama about a young woman (Davidtz from Schindler’s List) who, in the late-19th century, embarks on an arduous journey to find the lover who has betrayed her.

This article appears in October 27 • 1995 (Cover).

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Marjorie Baumgarten is a film critic and contributing writer at The Austin Chronicle, where she has worked in many capacities since the paper's founding in 1981. She served as the Chronicle's Film Reviews editor for 25 years.