If you stuck around for the post-credits scene of Thor: The Dark World, you know just how theatrical Benicio Del Toro can push a performance. But the man has range, and in Jimmy P., Del Toro swings his acting pendulum to the antithesis of what we'll see in Guardians of the Galaxy.
Jimmy Picard, a Blackfoot who fought in France during World War II, is dead in the eyes. His words plod out of his mouth. A shroud of sadness envelops his physical self. This is a shell of a man — and if the movie around him didn't feel equally as lumbering, Jimmy would stand out as one of Del Toro's best performances to date.
Director Arnaud Desplechin (A Christmas Tale) strives for absolute accuracy in his adaptation of Reality and dream: Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian, an actual case study chronicled by French psychotheraptist Georges Devereux. After suffering a string of spells he believes are related to a head injury incurred during the war, Jimmy admits himself to an asylum in Kansas. Discrimination percolates in the hospital, the doctors feeling “unqualified” to treat a Native American's psyche. So they call for outside consultation. Enter Georges Devereux (Quantum of Solace's Mathieu Amalric), whose excitement for Indian culture sends him running to catch the next boat to America.
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