In "one of the most unexpected and inspiring movie pairings in recent
memory (The Village Voice)," Jimmy P stars Academy Award winner Benicio
Del Toro and Mathieu Amalric in a true story about two very different
men who build a unique and powerful bond through psychotherapy. A WWII
vet plagued by excruciating headaches, dizzy spells, hearing loss and
bizarre dreams, Jimmy Picard (Del Toro), a Native American Blackfoot, is
labeled schizophrenic by a military hospital confused by his condition.
Enter French
anthropologist and Native American researcher Georges Devereux
(Amalric), called in by the hospital to make sense of their baffling
patient. Through increasingly vivid conversation, Picard and Devereux
develop a compelling friendship as they embark on an exploration of
Jimmy's memories and dreams, an experiment they conduct like a couple of
detectives in this intelligent and extraordinarily moving film from
Arnaud Desplechin (A Christmas Tale, Kings and Queen).
