Rembrandt Laughing
Directed by Jon Jost
Plot
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
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
Peter Machel
Crazy Tony
Marshall Gaddis
Jim Nisbet
Jim