Trailer Released for del Toro’s Drama “Jimmy P.”

Benicio del Toro is going native (and psycho) in his next project…

The 46-year-old Puerto Rican Oscar-winning actor is starring in Jimmy P., Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian.

Benicio del Toro in Jimmy PBenicio del Toro in Jimmy P

del Toro stars as a Native American riddled with postwar mental trauma Mathieu Amalric portrays the Hungarian Jewish doctor bent on solving the mystery locked in his patient’s mind.

Writer-director Arnaud Desplechin (A Christmas Tale, Kings & Queen) adapted Jimmy P. from real-life psychotherapist Georges Devereux‘s study of a Blackfoot Indian who’d served in World War II. The case is cited as prime example of dream interpretation and the “talking cure,” a verbal therapy utilized by Sigmund Freud.

Reviewing from the 2013 Cannes Film Festival, where Jimmy P. debuted in competition, The Hollywood Reporter praised the film for avoiding cliches and capitalizing on its two stars: “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.”

IFC Films will release Jimmy P., Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian in theaters on February 14 and through VOD Feb. 20.

IFC Films Acquires US Rights to Del Toro’s “Jimmy P: Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian”

Benicio Del Toro’s latest project will play in more places than the Plains…

IFC Films has acquired the U.S. distribution rights to the Arnaud Desplechin-directed Jimmy P: Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian.

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The film, which stars Del Toro and Mathieu Amalric, premiered at Cannes and was just screened at the New York Film Festival.

Desplechin, Kent Jones and Julie Peyr adapted the script from the George Devereux book Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian.

The series is about the author’s relationship and multidisciplinary study of Jimmy Picard, a Blackfoot Indian, who fought in World War II and suffered from psychological distress.

IFC is expected to release the film in early 2014.

del Toro to Star in “Jimmy Picard”

Benicio Del Toro is about to have an Indian summer…

The 45-year-old Puerto Rican actor has been cast in Jimmy Picard, a drama being adapted from Reality and Dream: Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian by acclaimed ethnologist and psychologist Georges Devereux.

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It’s the true story of the friendship between a Native American and a French psychoanalyst.

The Oscar-winning actor will play the title character, a Plains Indian member of the Blackfeet nation who returns from the World War II battlefield and experiences various medical symptoms, none of which can be explained physically. He travels to the famed Winter Hospital in Topeka, Kansas, where he encounters Georges Devereux, a French ethno-psychiatrist considered to have a strong understanding of the modern Native American. Through their sessions, the two men, foreign to themselves and to their country, become friends.

Shooting on the film, which will also star Mathieu Amalric and Gina McKee, is set to begin on June 18 in Michigan.

Meanwhile, del Toro will next appear in the Oliver Stone’s Savages with Salma Hayek and Blake Lively.