Rembrandt Laughing
7.2
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.
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Cast
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Jon A. English
Martin
Barbara Hammes
Claire
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Jon Jost
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Jennifer Johanson
Jennifer
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Ed Green
the framemaker
Nathaniel Dorsky
Daniel
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Janet McKinley
Janet
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Alenka Pavlin
Roger Ruffin
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Jon Jost Director · Jon A. English Composer
First release February 12, 1989 · Produced in United States
Production
Jon Jost Productions
Production
United States
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Languages
Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English
Release dates
Germany · February 12, 1989
Theatrical
No release date listed for United States.
Canada
September 14, 1989 · Toronto Film Festival
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