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Under-the-Radar Round Up 2013, Part 2
Original Reviews by Jonathan Broxton
I’m pleased to present the second installment in my on-going series of articles looking at the best under-the-radar scores from around the world.
This article, the second of 2013, explores five outstanding scores from recent months, including a provocative French drama about a teenage girl exploring her sexuality through a secret life as a prostitute, a psychological drama about a French psychoanalyst treating a traumatized Native American veteran in the aftermath of World War II, an animated family film about a six-year-old boy who invents elaborate stories about his absent mother’s adventures around the world, a satirical political comedy about the chaotic inner workings of the French Foreign Ministry, and an international television thriller about an ornithologist whose attempt to follow the migration of storks from Europe to Africa draws him into a deadly conspiracy.
JIMMY P. – Howard Shore
Original Review by Jonathan Broxton
Jimmy P., Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian, is a French drama directed by Arnaud Desplechin. Based on the autobiography by Georges Devereux, an early French psychotherapist, it stars Mathieu Almaric as a doctor who specializes in ethnology and psychoanalysis, who is asked to treat Jimmy Picard (Benicio Del Toro), a Blackfoot Indian who has returned from World War II with debilitating symptoms that seem to indicate post-traumatic stress and possible schizophrenia. Although the movie sounds very talky and intellectual, the movie actually deals with very human emotions, as well as the development of ethnographic psychoanalysis as a legitimate field, and was critically lauded at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival. Read more…
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