Jimmy P. Page #3

Synopsis: A troubled Native American veteran forms an extraordinary friendship with his maverick French psychoanalyst as they try to find a cure to his suffering.
Director(s): Arnaud Desplechin
Production: IFC Films
  6 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.1
Metacritic:
58
Rotten Tomatoes:
52%
UNRATED
Year:
2013
117 min
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your family belong to?

"Crazy Dogs" society.

And to what church do you belong?

I am Catholic.

Dr. Holt told me you

dream a great deal.

In what language do you dream in?

In English, most of the time.

What is the blackfoot

word for "dream"?

Ipa-pong-kaa.

As you can hear

I was born in Europe and

my English sounds a bit rough.

- Does it bother you?

- No.

So...

Tell me about your parents.

My father died of heart

trouble when I was five.

I was raised by my older

sister and brother-in-law.

What about your mother?

My mother was very strict.

Was your mother

a 'manly hearted' woman?

Huh.

Did I say something silly?

How do you know that?

In Mojave we say

'manly hearted' woman.

How do you say it in blackfoot?

Mukakya-ki.

My mother ran her place like a man.

My sister is the same way.

Can you talk to me about your sister?

My sister doesn't drink or smoke.

She's a mission school girl.

She is the oldest child.

She married to an important

functionary of the tribe.

His name is Jack.

By what kinship

the rimbulu called him?

My brother-in-law,

Nestamu.

Do you have any brothers?

Yes, but I don't see much of them.

I am the youngest.

You seem to think of your sister

much the same way

you think of your mother.

They are almost the same in my mind.

You admire your

sister a lot, don't you?

Yes

And what do you do

as an anthropologist?

Well...

we study all aspects of human beings.

Language, techniques,

physiology...

That's why you want

to learn Indian words?

Yes.

I lived with the Mojave for two years.

- In the desert?

- Yes.

I was able to learn their

language and their history.

What is life like for the Mojave?

Not as desperate as the Navajos.

But they have a pretty hard time.

Not to offend you,

but whites do not like us much.

That doesn't affect me at all.

It is strange living in a place

where people are soul sick.

- Do you want to smoke?

- No.

First, I brush some ink on the paper.

And then

you can draw with your finger.

Easy, here we are.

What should I draw?

Whatever you want.

I'm not good at drawing.

What is it?

A landscape.

Perfect.

Both drawings are

separated into 3 strips.

But the boundaries are not cut off.

There is a hidden part

here in the buttress.

And a route crosses

through the strips.

So there is no fractioning.

I see no trace of schizophrenia,

neither latent, nor

- Are you sure?

- I'd stake my life on it.

This man is not mad.

He must be removed as quickly

as possible from the closed ward.

George! Two pictures

are all you need?

Oh, more than enough.

At the base of this drawing

a completely repressed

pre-Oedipal stage.

Here, a house.

for a right-handed heterosexual male,

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Sherman Alexie

Sherman Joseph Alexie, Jr. (born October 7, 1966) is a Spokane-Coeur d'Alene-American novelist, short story writer, poet, and filmmaker. His writings draw on his experiences as an Indigenous American with ancestry from several tribes. He grew up on the Spokane Indian Reservation and now lives in Seattle, Washington.His best-known book is The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven (1993), a collection of short stories. It was adapted as the film Smoke Signals (1998), for which he also wrote the screenplay. His first novel Reservation Blues received one of the fifteen 1996 American Book Awards. His first young adult novel, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (2007), is a semi-autobiographical novel that won the 2007 U.S. National Book Award for Young People's Literature and the Odyssey Award as best 2008 audiobook for young people (read by Alexie). His 2009 collection of short stories and poems, War Dances, won the 2010 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction.Alexie is the guest editor of the 2015 Best American Poetry. more…

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