Marty Supreme
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“You want to get physical? Like an ape?”
Overview
Much like its protagonist, Josh Safdie's Marty Supreme is a firecracker of a film that rockets through its runtime with ceaseless drive and ambition. Marty Mauser (Timothée Chalamet) is a midcentury grindset guy from the Lower East Side, pinning all hopes of a life beyond his working class borough on the sport that's taking Asia by storm: table tennis. Calling in favours from fellow ping pong hustlers like Wally (Tyler "The Creator" Okonma), Marty will stop at nothing to achieve his dream of competing against Japanese world champion Koto Endo (Koto Kawaguchi)- although along the way he's distracted by compounding small-time scams, a situationship with the married Rachel (Odessa A’zion) and attempting to woo former Hollywood star Kay Stone (Gwyneth Paltrow).
“Electric...Marty Supreme is one of the most thoroughly pleasurable American movies of the year and one of the most exciting”
“A nerve-busting adrenaline jolt of a movie starring a never-better Timothée Chalamet”
“One of the year’s few masterpieces”
“The pure craziness is a marvel”
Why See This Film
Marty Supreme is less a movie about a sport (although you will learn to appreciate the nail-biting tension of table tennis) than a determined young man refusing to accept that there's no room for people like him in the capitalist superpower of postwar America. Chalamet grabs onto this role with both hands and jittery, white-hot intensity, driven by a compulsion to succeed that will take him from dilapidated tenements of NYC's Jewish quarter to the Ritz in London. Josh demonstrates the flair and verve we were anticipating and for all Marty's many, many faults he has found the most sympathetic Safdie Guy yet.
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