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.

Released Feb. 12, 1989 100 min None+

Genres: Comedy, Drama

Keywords: imdb.sex, imdb.san-francisco-california, imdb.marijuana, imdb.independent-film, imdb.sexual-revolution, imdb.ex-lovers, imdb.one-year-timespan + 7 more, imdb.cooking-soup, imdb.epidemic, imdb.year-1988, imdb.aids, imdb.reference-to-the-year-1968, imdb.shifting-sand, imdb.cinema-verite