Jimmy P: Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian

Jimmy P: Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian
Film poster
Directed byArnaud Desplechin
Written byArnaud Desplechin
Julie Peyr
Kent Jones
Produced byPascal Caucheteux
Grégoire Sorlat
StarringBenicio del Toro
Mathieu Amalric
CinematographyStéphane Fontaine
Edited byLaurence Briaud
Music byHoward Shore
Production
companies
Distributed byIFC Films
Release dates
  • 18 May 2013 (2013-05-18) (Cannes)
  • 11 September 2013 (2013-09-11) (France)
Running time
120 minutes
CountryFrance[1]
LanguageEnglish
Box office$30,283[2]

Jimmy P: Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian is a 2013 French drama film directed by Arnaud Desplechin.

Jimmy P. stars Benicio del Toro as title character Jimmy Picard, a Blackfoot Native American who has returned to Montana from World War II and suffers debilitating symptoms. Mathieu Amalric, who has appeared in most of Arnaud Desplechin’s films, plays George Devereux, a French doctor of Hungarian-Jewish background. He is called in as a specialist in ethnology and psychoanalysis. Jimmy P. is primarily based on Devereux's book, Reality and Dream: Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian (1951). The film is set at a veterans' hospital in Topeka, Kansas, during the pioneering days of psychoanalysis in the United States.

Jimmy P. was released commercially in Europe in September 2013, and was released in the US and Canada in early 2014. It received a nomination for the Palme d'Or at 2013 Cannes Film Festival,[3] and in January 2014, three nominations at the 39th César Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Adapted Screenplay.[4]

  1. ^ "Jimmy P. (Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian) (2013)". Retrieved 24 October 2016.
  2. ^ "Jimmy P (2014) - Box Office Mojo". Retrieved 24 April 2017.
  3. ^ "2013 Official Selection". Cannes. 20 April 2013. Retrieved 20 April 2013.
  4. ^ "Berenice Bejo, Lea Seydoux, Roman Polanski Among France's Cesar Awards Nominees". Hollywood Reporter. 31 January 2014. Retrieved 1 February 2014.