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Josh Safdie on Marty Supreme: ‘One dream has to end for another to begin’ | Dazed

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Marty Supreme is not so much a sports film, as one about a dreamer. Or maybe a salesman: someone who knows how to market and pitch his dream to others. In Josh Safdie’s 1950s table tennis epic, Marty Mauser’s (Timothée Chalamet), a wiry, pencil-moustached, 23-year-old Jewish American, is driven by a near-delirious desire to become the best player in the world. That obsession unfolds against a rapidly shifting postwar landscape, where power belongs not to athletes but to pen moguls, and where a single table tennis match can carry the weight of a nation’s success story.  “I’m Hitler’s worst nightmare,” Marty quips to journalists, as traditional notions of ambition collide with the entropic force of the new American Dream. Loosely inspired by table tennis sensation Marty Reisman, Marty Supreme marks Josh Safdie’s first solo directorial effort since 2008’s The Pleasure of Being Robbed. In the years since, Safdie has become synonymous with the frenetic, hustler-driven cinema he made alongsi

Gallery / 6 images Marty Supreme is not so much a sports film, as one about a dreamer. Or maybe a salesman : someone who knows how to market and pitch his dream to others. In Josh Safdie ’s 1950s table tennis epic, Marty Mauser’s ( Timothée Chalamet ), a wiry, pencil-moustached, 23-year-old Jewish American, is driven by a near-delirious desire to become the best player in the world. That obsession unfolds against a rapidly shifting postwar landscape, where power belongs not to athletes but to pen moguls, and where a single table tennis match can carry the weight of a nation’s success story. “I

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