Released:
1989-02-12

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.

Director:
Jon Jost

Runtime:
1h 40min

Genre:
Comedy, Drama

• Cast:
• 
  Jon A. English
  as
  Martin
• 
  Barbara Hammes
  as
  Claire
• 
  Jennifer Johanson
  as
  Jennifer
• 
  Ed Green
  as
  the framemaker
• 
  Nathaniel Dorsky
  as
  Daniel