New York Magazine, Oct. 20, 2003
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