Downtown New York, 1952. Marty Mauser is a local legend: a hard-scrabbling ping-pong ace who sells shoes to make ends meet, while scalping the scene’s best players by night.
Cocky, brittle, borderline delusional and brutally cruel to those who stand in the way of his dream, Marty won’t quit until he’s either raised the airfare to Japan to beat his #1 rival Koto Endo and be immortalised on a box of Wheaties – or else gets jailed on Rikers Island for one of his schemes-gone-bad.
a disclaimer: Marty Supreme isn’t actually a ‘ping-pong movie’. Josh Safdie’s acclaimed new film is really about ambition, sex, money, fame, greed, risk, destiny, desire – and how all of the above can turn on the bounce of a tiny white ball with a lead performance by Timothée Chalamet tipped to eat up awards season.
Directed by
Josh Safdie
Starring
Timothée Chalamet
Gwyneth Paltrow
Kevin O'Leary
Odessa A’zion
Abel Ferrara
and Tyler Okonma
