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JIMMY P. (Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian)

Category: Feature Film
Production year: 2012
Release date: 11/09/2013
DVD release date: 17/05/2019
VOD rental start date: 17/05/2019
Country: France
Genre(s): Drama
Runtime: 1:56

Director(s): Arnaud Desplechin
Cast: Benicio Del Toro, Mathieu Amalric, Gina Mc Kee, Michelle Thrush, Misty Upham
Scriptwriter(s): Arnaud Desplechin

Production company: Why Not Productions
French Distributor: Le Pacte
International sales: Wild Bunch | Orange Studio

Synopsis

At the end of World War II, Jimmy Picard, a Native American Blackfoot who fought in France, is admitted to Topeka Military Hospital in Kansas – an institution specializing in mental illness. Jimmy suffers from numerous symptoms: dizzy spells, temporary blindness, hearing loss… and withdrawal. In the absence of any physiological causes, he is diagnosed as schizophrenic. Nevertheless, the hospital management decides to seek the opinion of Georges Devereux, a French anthropologist, psychoanalyst and specialist in Native American culture.
JIMMY P. (Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian) tells the story of the encounter and developing friendship between two men who would never normally have met, and who appear to have nothing in common. Together, they embark on an exploration of Jimmy’s memories and dreams, an experiment they conduct like a couple of détectives, and with an ever-growing complicity.