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Rembrandt Laughing (1989)

★ 5.0/10 100 min Comedy, Drama United States English
Director: Jon Jost
Writer: Jon Jost
Streaming: Not available

Description

This film is a portrait of the passage of one year in the lives of some San Francisco friends, circa 1988 (before the dot.coming of the city), a slow marijuana hazed story which drifts like the fabled fog, encompassing the quirks and habits of a generation that made the city theirs, if only for a while. Very obliquely Rembrandt Laughing sketches the time and place, encompassing the AIDS epidemic, the casual sexual revolution, the debris of '68 lingering in the air. A quiet, very San Francisco comedy of life among a small group of friends. Rembrandt Laughing was improvised over the period of about a month by Jost and his friends, mostly acting non-professionals.

Top Cast

Jon A. English Martin
Barbara Hammes Claire
Jennifer Johanson Jennifer
Ed Green the framemaker
Nathaniel Dorsky
Nathaniel Dorsky Daniel
Janet McKinley Janet
Roger Ruffin Roger #1
John Powers Roger #2

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