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.
“A masterful elliptical account of a little over a year in the lives of a few friends in San Francisco… with a warmth, philosophical depth and overall sense of relaxation new to Jost’s work. One of the ten best films of 1989.”
– Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
“Rembrandt Laughing … a joy, a gem, a tissue paper tracing of epiphanies.”
– Amy Taubin, Village Voice
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