Rembrandt Laughing (1989)
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.
Casting
- Jon A. English — Martin
- Barbara Hammes — Claire
- Jennifer Johanson — Jennifer
- Ed Green — the framemaker
- Nathaniel Dorsky — Daniel
- Janet McKinley — Janet
- Roger Ruffin — Roger #1
- John Powers — Roger #2
- Henry S. Rosenthal — Stephen
- Kate Dezina — June Brandt
- Jerry Barrish — Mr. Bondsman
- John Bassett — Stacy
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