“Come closer, I want to kiss you.”

I would go running if Mathieu Amalric would stretch his hands and tell me in his French-accented English. In Arnaud Desplechin’s at the same time ambitious and maudlin ‘American’ film about a Blackfoot Native American, the Jimmy P. of the title, and a French doctor, George Devereux, played by Amalric, based on Devereux’s book, Reality and Dream: Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian (1952), Jimmy P. (2013).