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Rembrandt Laughing (1989)

Rembrandt Laughing (1989)

Drama Comedy
Release Date: 1989, February 12
Directors: Jon Jost
Countries: United States of America
Production: Jon Jost Productions, Jon Jost Productions
Cast: John Powers, Jerry Barrish, Ed Green, Roger Ruffin, Kate Dezina, Barbara Hammes, Jennifer Johanson, Janet McKinley, John Bassett, Peter Machel

Overview:

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.