
Jimmy P: Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian
★★☆☆☆



Directed by
Arnaud Desplechin
Produced by Pascal Caucheteux and Jennifer Roth
Written by Arnaud Desplechin, Julie Peyr, and Kent Jones
Based on the book Reality and dream: Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian by Georges Devereux
With: Benicio Del Toro, Mathieu Amalric, Gina McKee, Larry Pine, Joseph Cross, Gary Farmer, Michelle Thrush, Misty Upham, Jennifer Podemski, Michael Greyeyes, and A Martinez
Editing: Laurence Briaud
Music: Howard Shore
Runtime: 117 min
Release Date: 11 September 2013
Aspect Ratio: 2.35 : 1
Color
Produced by Pascal Caucheteux and Jennifer Roth
Written by Arnaud Desplechin, Julie Peyr, and Kent Jones
Based on the book Reality and dream: Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian by Georges Devereux
With: Benicio Del Toro, Mathieu Amalric, Gina McKee, Larry Pine, Joseph Cross, Gary Farmer, Michelle Thrush, Misty Upham, Jennifer Podemski, Michael Greyeyes, and A Martinez
Runtime:
117 min
Release Date: 11 September 2013
Color/Aspect: Color / 2.35 : 1
Cinematography:
Stéphane FontaineRelease Date: 11 September 2013
Color/Aspect: Color / 2.35 : 1
Editing: Laurence Briaud
Music: Howard Shore
Runtime: 117 min
Release Date: 11 September 2013
Aspect Ratio: 2.35 : 1
Color

Jimmy P: Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian
★★☆☆☆


Jimmy P. is another valiant attempt to
make a movie about the therapeutic process and on those terms it succeeds
better then most films that have come before it--films from Hitchcock's Spellbound
to Cronenberg's A Dangerous Method. However, this true
story about a Blackfoot Indian WWII vet institutionalized in an army hospital,
and the French anthropologist who engages with him in the talking cure, is far
too dry and unfocused to succeed as a narrative film. Working in English for
the first time, French director Arnaud Desplechin (A Christmas Tale, My Sex
Life ... or How I Got into an Argument) shoots the movie in an erratic
style with all kinds of odd camera angles and jarring editorial choices. The two lead performances by Benicio del Toro and Mathieu
Amalric are always engaging and, at times, quite riveting, but the film around
them never comes together in a way that enables us to understand what really happened
for each man over the course of their sessions together. It seems as though
Desplechin and his co-writers have tried to faithfully put on screen the pages
of notes in Georges Devereux's case study (on which the film is based), but
they've left out any meaningful analysis of what it all means, either at the
time of the writing, or now at the time of the film.
Directed by
Arnaud Desplechin
Produced by Pascal Caucheteux and Jennifer Roth
Written by Arnaud Desplechin, Julie Peyr, and Kent Jones
Based on the book Reality and dream: Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian by Georges Devereux
With: Benicio Del Toro, Mathieu Amalric, Gina McKee, Larry Pine, Joseph Cross, Gary Farmer, Michelle Thrush, Misty Upham, Jennifer Podemski, Michael Greyeyes, and A Martinez
Editing: Laurence Briaud
Music: Howard Shore
Runtime: 117 min
Release Date: 11 September 2013
Aspect Ratio: 2.35 : 1
Color
Produced by Pascal Caucheteux and Jennifer Roth
Written by Arnaud Desplechin, Julie Peyr, and Kent Jones
Based on the book Reality and dream: Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian by Georges Devereux
With: Benicio Del Toro, Mathieu Amalric, Gina McKee, Larry Pine, Joseph Cross, Gary Farmer, Michelle Thrush, Misty Upham, Jennifer Podemski, Michael Greyeyes, and A Martinez
Runtime:
117 min
Release Date: 11 September 2013
Color/Aspect: Color / 2.35 : 1
Cinematography:
Stéphane FontaineRelease Date: 11 September 2013
Color/Aspect: Color / 2.35 : 1
Editing: Laurence Briaud
Music: Howard Shore
Runtime: 117 min
Release Date: 11 September 2013
Aspect Ratio: 2.35 : 1
Color
How I Rate Films
★★★★★
One of the 5000 greatest films. Usually only awarded after repeat viewings, so there are more five-star films from decades past than recent years.
★★★★☆
An excellent film. Possibly one of the 5000 and certainly worthy of repeated viewing.
★★★☆☆
A good film well worth seeing. Films listed at the top of this ranking could end up one of the 5000.
★★☆☆☆
A disappointment, an interesting failure, or just a bad movie. Still, maybe worth seeing: I often enjoy the top two-star films in a given list more than the bottom three-star films.
★☆☆☆☆
A bad, rant-worthy film. Should be avoided regardless of hype or talent involved.
☆☆☆☆☆
One of the worst films.
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