Synopsis
At the end of WWII, Jimmy Picard, a Native American Blackfoot who fought in France, suffers from unexplainable symptoms and is admitted to a military hospital. When doctors suspect schizophrenia, an eccentric psychoanalyst takes up the case and starts a conversation with the veteran.
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Cast
- Benicio del ToroJimmy Picard
- Mathieu AmalricGeorges Devereux
- Gina McKeeMadeleine
- Larry PineDr. Karl Menninger
- Joseph CrossDr. Holt
- Elya BaskinDr. Jokl
- Gary FarmerJack
- Michelle ThrushGayle Picard
- Misty UphamJane
- Jennifer PodemskiDoll
Recommandations
- 80
Time Out
Del Toro and Amalric’s concentrated performances — the former resigned and shell-shocked, the latter agitated and servile — have an anguished grandeur. - 80
Village Voice
Amalric's impish dexterity and Del Toro's mild catatonia make for a memorable mismatch, but Jimmy P.'s profound slow burn might be too clinical for some to consider dramatic. - 70
Variety
Jimmy P. is never better than when its two leads share the screen, a relationship all the more resonant and moving for Desplechin’s refusal to make it cutesy or contrived. - 70
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. - 63
Slant Magazine
Too often Jimmy P. seems to struggle in making its interesting ideas apparent, leaving them stranded beneath the dry surface of an otherwise ordinary procedural. - 60
Time Out London
Desplechin’s film is a modest but very passable affair. - 50
The Playlist
The problem is that the movie becomes more focused on diagnosis than character, and so what eventually unfolds is a meandering picture that only too late in the game leans toward highlighting any kind of thematic undercurrent while introducing romantic interests for the leads that do little but pad out an already too long running time. - 30
Film.com
It’s just boring – and boring in a way that apparently has no endgame.
