Marty Supreme
New York, 1952: young Marty Mauser works in a shoe shop and is having an affair with his childhood sweetheart Rachel, who is now married to someone else. But Marty dreams of much more; his greatest ambition is to become a successful table tennis champion, a sport that is still relatively new at the time. He even has a patent on his own brand of ping pong balls, the Marty Supreme. He is willing to do anything to realise that dream and so he spends all his savings to compete in the table tennis championship at Wembley Stadium in London. There he is exposed to all kinds of temptations, risks and challenges.
In this particularly energetic drama, director Josh Safdie deliberately misleads the viewer. Although the film is set in the 1950s, we hear music from the 1980s, while according to some reviewers, the film feels like a character study from the 1970s. Perhaps Safdie wanted to show how out of place his main character is, who is played with verve by Timothée Chalamet.
