"Last fall, a passerby snagged a photo that set the internet ablaze: Timothée Chalamet and Gwyneth Paltrow sharing a kiss in Central Park. This dalliance was not real, but rather one of many scenes from Marty Supreme that was filmed on the ground in the Big Apple. It's the New York City movie of the year, and it's all about table tennis and Chalamet's titular, pompous hustler clawing his way to the top of that world."
"Set primarily in Lower Manhattan in the 1950s, Marty Supreme follows Marty, at first a young and unibrowed shoe salesman, who will stop at nothing to pursue his dream of becoming a world-class table tennis player. He's pompous, with a hustler mindset, and keeps getting himself into trouble. His childhood best friend and sometimes-lover, Rachel Mizler (Odessa A'zion), gets swept up in his hijinks, as does his temperamental foil of a friend, Wally (Tyler the Creator)."
"Despite lacking notoriety in the US, table tennis was one of the biggest sports in the world at the time, and this story is loosely based on real table tennis player Marty Reisman. In order to get a glimpse of that world, which, as Marty tells another character during the film, "fills stadiums overseas," we see him travel all over."
Set in 1950s Lower Manhattan, Marty Supreme follows Marty, a young unibrowed shoe salesman turned ambitious table tennis hustler. Marty pursues his dream of becoming a world-class player, displaying pompous, hustler traits and recurring trouble. Rachel Mizler, his childhood best friend and sometimes-lover, and Wally, a temperamental friend, become entangled in his schemes. Table tennis, though underappreciated in the US, fills stadiums overseas and drives Marty on tours from New York tenements and midtown basements to Wembley Stadium, a Harlem Globetrotters tour, and Japan. The film draws loose inspiration from real player Marty Reisman and features production design by Jack Fisk.
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