“Jimmy P: Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian,” January 23, 2015 (2013), DVD. We were intrigued by and appreciated this understated, lo- keyed, very well acted based-on-a true-story film. Jimmy Picard (Benicio Del Toro) was a Native American from the Blackfoot nation, and a WWII vet plagued by terrible dreams, horrible headaches, and occasional blindness. After being sent to the Menninger Clinic in Topeka by the government (the VA doing its job?), he is, at first, diagnosed as schizophrenic by well-meaning doctors with a limited psychological palate. Knowing what he doesn’t know, Karl Menninger calls on a French-Hungarian/Romanian anthropologist, Georges Devereau (Mathieu Almaric) with training in psychotherapy. A long, very quiet series of therapeutic sessions follow. The film is somewhat jumbled as was this unusual but meaningful conjunction of the Freudian and anthropological techniques, and the therapeutic jargon seems especially odd here. In the end, however, it was a satisfying look at the imperative of real cultural understanding, the power of patience and openness, of empowerment of the oppressed, and the limits and arrogance of much of Western medicine and psychotherapy. This is not a process that will work in a 10-session HMO plan. Devereau, who was neither an MD nor a shrink and was rejected by the French therapeutic community, went on the write Reality and Dream with Margaret Mead. It’s directed with, perhaps, too-stately pacing by Arnaud Desplachin. The special features attached to the DVD including a short on the making of the film and interviews are well worth the time. The late Misty Upham, herself a member of the Blackfoot nation, does a lovely job as his former true love and her comments during the features are especially moving. Blackfoot scholars played an active role in working on the script, acting in the film, and vetting many cultural, historical aspects of the film. This included working with Del Toro, who is Puerto Rican, not Native American.