French filmmaker Arnaud Desplechin, who directed the Playlist favorites, “A Christmas Tale” and “Kings and Queen” has lined up his next film, the provocatively titled, “Psychotherapy Of A Plains Indian.”
Naturally, details on this one are scarce at the moment, but apparently, it will be based on “The History Of Thought” “Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian: Realities” and dreamby psychoanalyst and anthropologist George Devereux.
Update: Cinema Teaser have the true details (apparently jacked from Tout Le Cine without credit, tsk, tsk). They’re google translated from French though so bare with.
[It’s] a book reissued in 1998 by Fayard and telling analysis that led Devereux Jimmy Picard, Indian Tribe Blackfoot, plagued by alcoholism, severe neuroses, and a profound sense of rootlessness. Eighty meetings that led the two men become friends. Desplechin, he already knows that the opus will be produced by his partner and longtime partner Pascal Cocheteux, assured yet have any actors in mind, unaccustomed to write for a specific actor. Given the subject, one can imagine that Desplechin will again turn into English, as he had done for his superb ESTHER KAHN, even in the United States, which would be a first for him.
Obviously, anytime Mathieu Amalric appears in a Desplechin picture, he’s generally firing on all cylinders and is rather amazing (he’s stellar in both aforementioned films), so you know who has our vote for the role.