IFC Films has acquired the U.S. distribution rights to acclaimed French director Arnaud Desplechin's (A Christmas Tale, Kings & Queen) latest film, Jimmy P. (2013), starring Benicio Del Toro, Mathieu Amalric, Gina McKee, Michelle Thrush, and Larry Pine. The distributor plans to have the film in U.S. theaters in early 2014.
Jimmy P. had its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival earlier this year. Here's the festival's official film synopsis:
At the end of World War II, Jimmy Picard, a Native American Blackfoot who fought in France, is admitted to Topeka Military Hospital in Kansas - an institution specializing in mental illness. Jimmy suffers from numerous symptoms: dizzy spells, temporary blindness, hearing loss... In the absence of any physiological causes, he is diagnosed as schizophrenic. Nevertheless, the hospital management decides to seek the opinion of Georges Devereux, a French anthropologist, psychoanalyst and specialist in Native American culture.
Note: French label France Televisions Distribution will bring Jimmy P. to Blu-ray on January 22. See our listing of this upcoming release here.