A Chinese family is shattered by the Cultural Revolution in this quiet melodrama from director Zhang Yimou (“House of Flying Daggers”). “Coming Home” stars Gong Li as Wanyu, a woman whose professor husband, Yanshi (Chen Daoming), has been sent to a labor camp. At the start of the film, he has escaped to see her and their teenage daughter, Dandan (Zhang Huiwen). But he’s recaptured, partly due to Dandan’s terror at being associated with a criminal, and when he’s finally released, his devoted wife is suffering a trauma-induced dementia that renders her unable to recognize him.

It’s a fairly implausible cinematic twist (his is the only face her brain can’t process), but in Zhang’s capable hands, their love story — in which Yanshi masquerades as various workmen in order to see his wife and attempt to jog her memory — is elegantly touching, as is the slow repair of the relationship between father and daughter.