Marty Supreme feels like the kind of film that last year's Challengers was trying to be but fell short. It plays like a 2 1/2 hour fever dream
The film is said to be loosely inspired by the life and career of American table tennis player Marty Reisman. The screenplay by director Josh Safdie and his co-writer Ronald Bronstein
The cinematography is fantastic, gorgeously rendered on 35mm to evoke a retro style, giving us the sense that it's a film made in the 50s. The score by Daniel Lopatin is excellent complimenting the film adrenaline and building up to seemingly nonstop crushendos The pacing is relentless, every scene feels like an action sequence with bearly and room to breath. Like a blizzard of subplots and side quests going on. I honestly found it exhausting and distressing. Much like the game that Marty plays, it's almost impossible to keep your eye on the ball.
The table tennis sequences are exhilarating, they move with such a kinetic energy that it's overwhelming.
The film is bookended by Tears for Fears
Timothée Chalamet (fresh off of Dune Part II & A Complete Unknown) is To be blunt: Marty Mauser sucks, while he's undoubtable an excellent ping pong player, he likes the finer things in life, hungers for greatness, has no inhibitions about putting himself first and is an all round insufferable know-it all. He's desperate to make something of himself Over the course of the film, it becomes apparent that Marty is his own worst enemy
It's great to see Gwyneth Paltrow in a film again after so long and she definitely delivered in role of retired actress and socialite Kay Stone On top of that, she also has to contend with a husband, Milton Rockwell (Kevin O'Leary) who eventually gets Marty in the palm of his hand.
Odesa A'zion is also deeply ernest and sympathetic playing Rachel Mizler. Marty and Rachel have known each other since childhood and She encapsulates the vulnerability and
Abel Ferrera
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