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Jimmy P.

Jimmy P. (Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian) (Jimmy Picard)

2013

Arnaud Desplechin

Benicio del Toro, Mathieu Amalric, Gina McKee, Larry Pine ...

5.1

648

Drama 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... In the absence of any physiological causes, he is diagnosed as schizophrenic. Nevertheless, the hospital management decides to seek the opinion of Georges ... [+]

	Author	Review
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"'How much longer do I have to stay here?' he enquires of a nurse at one point. You ask her, Jim, ask for us all Rating: ★ (out of five)"	NEG
United States	Deborah Young The Hollywood Reporter	"The whole project is saved largely thanks to the subtext of ethnic discrimination that runs through the film, and two riveting central performances, which overcome a wobbly start to find emotional balance by the final reel"	NEU
United States	Scott Foundas Variety	"'Jimmy P.' is never better than when its two leads share the screen (...) The moody, melodramatic original score by Howard Shore enhances as many scenes as it threatens to drown out"	NEU
United States	A. O. Scott The New York Times	"[A] ruminative, gentle and absorbing new film."	POS

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