Marty Supreme

Josh Safdie: Marty Supreme (US 2025). Timothée Chalamet as Marty Mauser. What makes Marty run?

Marty Supreme - unelmoi isosti / Marty Supreme (title in Sweden)

    Fiche technique (Wikipédia):

US © 2025 ITTF.

Sociétés de production : A24, Elara Pictures et IPR.VC

Sociétés de distribution : A24 (États-Unis), Metropolitan Filmexport (France)

Production : Ronald Bronstein, Eli Bush, Timothée Chalamet, Anthony Katagas et Josh Safdie

Coproduction : Samson Jacobson et John Paul Lopez-Ali

Réalisation : Josh Safdie

Scénario : Josh Safdie et Ronald Bronstein

Photographie : Darius Khondji

Décors : Jack Fisk

Costumes : Miyako Bellizzi

Musique : Daniel Lopatin

Montage : Ronald Bronstein

    Cast from Wikipedia:

Timothée Chalamet as Marty Mauser, an aspiring table tennis champion, fiercely determined to be the best in the sport. The character is loosely based on real-life table tennis player Marty Reisman.

Gwyneth Paltrow as Kay Stone, a wealthy, retired actress and socialite who forms a sexual relationship with Marty.

Odessa A'zion as Rachel Mizler, a married, childhood friend of Marty who is having an affair with him.

Kevin O'Leary as Milton Rockwell, an influential businessman and Kay's husband who takes interest in Marty and table tennis.

Tyler, the Creator as Wally, a taxi-driver and Marty's friend, also skilled at table tennis.

Abel Ferrara as Ezra Mishkin, a criminal that Marty crosses paths with.

Fran Drescher as Rebecca Mauser, Marty's mother.

Luke Manley as Dion Galanis, Marty's friend who lives with his parents.

Emory Cohen as Ira Mizler, Rachel's husband.

Larry "Ratso" Sloman as Murray Norkin, Marty's uncle and shoe shop owner.

Ralph Colucci as Lloyd, Marty's coworker at the shoe shop.

Géza Röhrig as Bela Kletzki, a Holocaust survivor and table tennis champion representing Hungary. The character is loosely based on real-life table tennis player Alojzy Ehrlich.

Koto Kawaguchi as Koto Endo, a deaf table tennis champion representing Japan. The character is partially inspired by Kawaguchi himself and partially by real-life table tennis player Hiroji Satoh.

Pico Iyer as Ram Sethi, the head of the International Table Tennis Association.

John Catsimatidis as Christopher Galanis, a businessman and Dion's father.

Sandra Bernhard as Judy, Marty's neighbor who lives downstairs.

George Gervin as Lawrence, a table tennis club owner.

Ted Williams as Ted, a worker at Lawrence's table tennis club.

Penn Jillette as Hoff, a farmer in New Jersey.

Isaac Mizrahi as Merle, a publicist working with Kay.

David Mamet as Glenn Nordmann, a stage director working with Kay.

Fred Hechinger as Troy, a stage actor working with Kay.

Spenser Granese as Clark, a man who gets hustled by Marty and Wally.

Levon Hawke as Christian, a man who gets hustled by Marty and Wally.

Isaac Simon as Roger, a man who gets hustled by Marty and Wally.

Hailey Gates as Trish, Roger's girlfriend.

Mitchell Wenig as Mitch, Ezra's henchman.

Mariann Tepedino as Mariann, a shoe store customer.

Philippe Petit as a Brussels MC.

Tracy McGrady as a Globetrotter.

Kemba Walker as a Globetrotter.

Naomi Fry as an assistant to Kay Stone.

Ronald Bronstein as the voice of Blarney Stone Phone.

Ray Tintori as a Wembley cameraman.

Paul Grimstad as a theatre production manager.

Robert Pattinson as the voice of the British umpire at the tournament. (uncredited)

    Music Credits

    The 1980s

Change - Tears For Fears

Forever Young - Alphaville

I Have The Touch - Peter Gabriel

Everybody's Got To Learn Sometime (Alternate Version) - The Korgis

The Order Of Death - Public Image Ltd.

The Perfect Kiss - New Order

Everybody Wants To Rule The World - Tears For Fears

    The 1950s

Carnival Day - Dave Bartholomew

How High The Moon - Les Paul & Mary Ford

Walk That Mess - Tiny Bradshaw

Don't Let The Stars Get In Your Eyes - Perry Como

The Fat Man - Fats Domino

As Summer Turns To Fall - The Jubalaires

Rock, Daddy, Rock - Big Bertha Henderson with Al Smith Orchestra

Belle Reve - Alex North & Ray Heindorf

Rile's Wiles - Paul Sikivie

My Song - Johnny Ace, The Beale Streeters

    Other

Piano Sonata No. 17 - Jeno Jandó (Beethoven)

Novus Pt. 2: The Flying Bach - Daniel Lopatin (written by Constance Demby)

American Fantasie - Victor Herbert's Orchestra

Twinkle Twinkle Little Star - Traditional

Toukyou Bugiugi AKA Tokyo Boogie Woogie

Hiroshi No Sakura Ondo - Hirohi Itsuki

    Loc: New Jersey.

    Langue originale : anglais

    Budget : 70 millions de dollars

    Genre : comédie dramatique, sport

    Durée : 149 minutes

    Dates de sortie :

États-Unis : 6 octobre 2025 (festival de New York)

États-Unis : 25 décembre 2025

France : 18 février 2026

Finland: 23 Jan 2026 - released by Nordisk Film - Finnish / Swedish subtitles by Charlotte Elo

Viewed at Tennispalatsi 2, Salomonkatu 15, 00100 Helsinki, 23 Jan 2026

AA: Josh Safdie's Marty Supreme is a study in chutzpah. The rags to riches story belongs to the lineage of What Makes Sammy Run? (Budd Schulberg, 1941) and The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (Mordecai Richler, 1959). Timothée Chalamet breaks new ground on his Laufbahn (career) as the obnoxious antihero Marty Mauser who lies and cheats his way to the top while his unique talent in table tennis is unquestionable. The games are thrillingly photographed in wide shots by maestro Darius Khondji who records the cartoonish chase sequences in extreme close-up with a handheld camera. 

Flight is the essence: breaking free from restraints to talent, from the shadows of the past, from responsibility in relationships and from furious debt collectors of mounting hotel bills. Marty has relationships with two married women and makes both pregnant, evading consequences until he cannot anymore. 

An undercurrent is antisemitism, and daringly (a bit like Ernst Lubitsch) Safdie flaunts the negative characteristics of his villainous Jewish protagonist. The beehive flashback involving Bela Kletzki (Géza Röhrig) is an unusual contribution to Auschwitz lore. Marty is twice exposed to public humiliation: in a vicious spanking by Milton Rockwell and a threat of having to kiss a pig in front of the Tokyo exhibition match audience.

A glamorous counterpart to the rough-skinned Marty Mauser is Kay Stone (Gwyneth Paltrow), the trophy wife of Milton Rockwell (Kevin O'Leary), the mighty businessman and cuckolded husband. We get glimpses of Kay's solitude and desolation in the gilded cage.

In the final sequence Marty seems to be on the brink of redemption as he holds in awe his newborn baby. Safdie connects here with a cinematic tradition of villains redeemed by a baby from Charles Chaplin's The Kid and John Ford's The Three Godfathers to Coline Serreau's Trois hommes et un couffin. 

Marty Supreme offends, disturbs and defies clichés. It is powered by unique energy. A film you might love to hate.