Absorbing look at China's Cultural Revolution of the sixties and seventies focuses on individuals and families that came of age during the controversial, brutal period. Informative if staid filmmaking is balanced out by some valuable archival footage as well as an intriguing look at the rarely discussed "cultural" artifacts — music, plays, and rhetoric — of the Revolution. (1 hr. 57 mins.; NR)

Bilge Ebiri and Logan Hill