Tomorrow morning (or in about nine hours from now), I’ll be sitting down to watch Arnaud Desplechin‘s Jimmy P., an adaptation of George Devereux’s non-fiction book “Reality and Dream: Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian” and tonight a trailer for the film, which stars Benicio Del Toro and Mathieu Amalric has dropped, giving you a hint of what I’ll be checking out.
The film follows a Native American soldier using the alias Jimmy Picard (Del Toro) who, following World War II, is troubled by psychosomatic illness. Working with Devereux (Amalric), the two form a bond of friendship amidst their professional, medical relationship.
My experience with Desplechin is limited to 2008’s A Christmas Tale of which I reviewed the Criterion Blu-ray back in December 2009 of which I wrote, “I didn’t connect with it instantly even though I enjoyed it.” Hopefully Jimmy P. is even better.
