Rembrandt Laughing (1989)

Genres - Avant-garde / Experimental, Drama  |   Run Time - 100 min.  |   Countries - United States  |  
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Synopsis by Hal Erickson

The title refers to a rare etching of Dutch artist Rembrandt. Jon A. English plays a young musician who expresses his love for former girl friend Barbara Hammes by presenting her with a Xeroxed copy of the Rembrandt etching. Though Hammes is touched, she doesn't want to get back together with English. And that's what passes for a plot in this collection of loosely related visual anecdotes, recording the separate day-to-day existences of English and Hammes. Devotees of director Jon Jost will uncover profundities in every scene; those who aren't so taken by Jost will scratch their heads and wonder what all the shouting is about.

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art, boyfriend, girlfriend, life, musician