Dir: Josh Safdie
Cast: Timothée Chalamet, Odessa A'zion, Fran Drescher, Tyler Okonma, Kevin O’Leary, Gwyneth Paltrow
Marty Supreme is a drama about ambition, sex, money, fame, greed, risk, destiny, and desire, set in the world of ping-pong. The film follows Marty Mauser, 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.
The film is based on the real-life story of Marty Reisman, a showman and hustler from Manhattan, who’d often play blindfolded, using shoes and frying pans, and was able to split a cigarette by firing a ball at it. The film features a lead performance by Timothée Chalamet, tipped to eat up awards season, and a supporting cast including Odessa A'zion, Fran Drescher, and Gwyneth Paltrow.
