Jimmy P. - Psychotherapy of an Indian
| Movie | |
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| German title | Jimmy P. - Psychotherapy of an Indian |
| Original title | Jimmy P. (Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian) / Jimmy P. (Psychotherapy d'un India des Plaines) |
| Country of production | France |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2013 |
| length | 117 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Arnaud Desplechin |
| script | Arnaud Desplechin |
| production |
Pascal Caucheteux Jennifer Roth |
| music | Howard Shore |
| camera | Stéphane Fontaine |
| cut | Laurence Briaud |
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Jimmy P. - Psychotherapy of an Indian is a French feature film by Arnaud Desplechin from 2013. The film is based on an authentic case.
action
Kansas in 1948: Jimmy Picard, a Blackfoot Indian, fought in France during World War II . After an accident in which he fell from a moving jeep, he was briefly in a coma with a fractured skull. Since the end of the war he has received a wounded pension. Again and again he has collapses, symptoms of paralysis and suffers from hearing loss, temporary blindness and severe headaches. The army is now paying for a transfer of Jimmy from his sister's farm to the Winter Veteran Hospital in Topeka . Here it is examined and new brain scans are made. Physically, however, Jimmy is in good shape and no cause for his pain can be identified. The doctors initially suspect that he has schizophrenia and transfer him to the psychiatric ward of the hospital and later to the closed ward. They bring the psychoanalyst Georges Devereux from Brooklyn to Topeka, who is supposed to examine Jimmy even if he is not licensed as a practicing doctor.
Georges is an avid ethnologist , spent three years with the Mohave, and is very interested in Jimmy as Blackfoot. He first asks Jimmy about his family and his traditional name. After painting tests, Georges can safely say that Jimmy is not schizophrenic. The clinic hires him to treat Jimmy for an hour a day. In the sessions, Jimmy and Georges talk about the family, Jimmy's dreams and his feelings. Georges believes that dreams always provide clues to events in the past and can thus be linked to Jimmy's fears. He became a father at the age of 17, but did not look after his daughter. Georges tries to make it clear to him that he was too young and that he doesn't have to blame himself. It was only after a few sessions that Jimmy allowed Georges to participate in two actions that had a deep impact on him and that he never told anyone: he witnessed a neighbor girl drowning in a lake and did not help her because he was too scared. The sister of the dead later got him to masturbate her with his hand as a child until Jimmy's sister caught them both and beat him up. Jimmy later saw his recently widowed mother having sex with a strange man who was not punished for his actions - a deep-seated injustice he never could come to terms with. During the presentation of the case to colleagues at the clinic, Georges states that Jimmy may have a Hamlet complex , so he felt himself to be a father's substitute for his mother, but was not allowed to fill this role.
Another unprocessed complex in Jimmy's life is the story of his first love, Jane, and their daughter. Jane was expecting a child from Jimmy. One day they were both at a party when Jimmy brought another woman home. When he returned to celebrate, he saw Jane coming out of a stable with another man. He suspected she was cheating. He now refused a wedding with her. When he also denied the child, she sued him, but the court found him right. It wasn't until later that he learned from the other man that he and Jane were only looking for Jimmy. He saw Jane again a few years later when his daughter was just eleven years old. They wanted to meet again, but Jane had already died of an operation at the time. Since then, contact with the daughter has only existed through letters. Jimmy's complaints diminish with the disclosure of more and more psychological stress. However, he collapses when he is lied to by a nurse: Contrary to what she said, an office that can write his income check is not open on Saturday. With a severe headache, Jimmy is admitted to the hospital, half passed out. Georges can reconstruct Jimmy's main psychological conflict: He is afraid of hurting women and at the same time afraid of being hurt by women. After this analysis, Jimmy's complaints disappear. Another brain exam also shows no abnormalities and he is discharged as cured. While Georges is being treated on the couch by the head of the clinic and analyzing how he is coping with the departure of his long-time patient Jimmy, Jimmy visits his daughter. He tells her that he was thinking about adopting her after all this time.
production
Jimmy P. - Psychotherapy of an Indian is based on an authentic case that the psychoanalyst Georges Devereux described in his book Psychothérapie d'un indien des plaines in 1951 . The film was shot in Michigan in summer 2012. The Winter Veteran Hospital building is actually the home of the Order of the Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary in Monroe, Michigan. The costumes were created by David C. Robinson , the film construction was done by Dina Goldman .
The film premiered on May 18, 2013 as part of the 2013 Cannes International Film Festival . It was released in French cinemas on September 11, 2013, where it was seen by 264,992 people. In November 2013 the film was shown in Austria as part of the Viennale. The film was released on DVD in France on January 22, 2014 and was also released on DVD in Germany on October 10, 2014.
Awards
Jimmy P. - Psychotherapy of an Indian was screened at the Cannes International Film Festival 2013 in the competition for the Golden Palm . The film was nominated for a Prix Louis Delluc for Best Picture in the same year .
In 2014, Stéphane Fontaine received a nomination for the Camera Prize of the Prix Lumières . The film was also nominated for three Césars in 2014 : in the categories of Best Film , Best Director (Arnaud Desplechin) and Best Adapted Screenplay (Arnaud Desplechin).
Web links
- Jimmy P. - Psychotherapy of an Indian in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ In the German dubbing, however, it says in this regard: " She (the grandmother) asked me (Jimmy P.) to adopt you ", which is illogical, as Jimmy P. had and was successful years ago against the paternity only came to the realization during his therapy that he wanted to make amends.
- ↑ Un film américain pour Desplechin , allocine.fr.
- ↑ See Jimmy P. (Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian) on allocine.fr
- ↑ Jimmy P. (Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian) on viennale.at.
- ↑ See Jimmy P. (Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian) on festival-cannes.fr