Jimmy P: Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian

A FILM BY Arnaud Desplechin

This is a superb, engrossing picture, strange in all the right ways.

- Stephanie Zacharek, the Village Voice

Un film magnifique, sobre et maîtrisé sur les blessures de l'âme et l'amitié.

- Éric Moreault, Le Soleil

Porté par deux acteurs fabuleux et complémentaires.

- Helen Faradji, TFO

Synopsis

Jimmy Picard, a Native American Blackfoot who fought in France during WWII, is admitted to Topeka Military Hospital in Kansas - an institution specializing in mental illness. Although he does not suffer any psychological causes for his painful symptoms, 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.