<div class="flex flex-col text-sm pb-25"><article class="text-token-text-primary w-full focus:outline-none [--shadow-height:45px] has-data-writing-block:pointer-events-none has-data-writing-block:-mt-(--shadow-height) has-data-writing-block:pt-(--shadow-height) [&amp;:has([data-writing-block])&gt;*]:pointer-events-auto scroll-mt-[calc(var(--header-height)+min(200px,max(70px,20svh)))]" dir="auto" data-turn-id="request-WEB:0cd35ba4-31c1-449b-9573-b32fd72cbfb9-10" data-testid="conversation-turn-4" data-scroll-anchor="true" data-turn="assistant" tabindex="-1"><div class="text-base my-auto mx-auto pb-10 [--thread-content-margin:--spacing(4)] @w-sm/main:[--thread-content-margin:--spacing(6)] @w-lg/main:[--thread-content-margin:--spacing(16)] px-(--thread-content-margin)"><div class="[--thread-content-max-width:40rem] @w-lg/main:[--thread-content-max-width:48rem] mx-auto max-w-(--thread-content-max-width) flex-1 group/turn-messages focus-visible:outline-hidden relative flex w-full min-w-0 flex-col agent-turn" tabindex="-1"><div class="flex max-w-full flex-col grow"><div data-message-author-role="assistant" data-message-id="a0489f3c-7284-4508-842c-a1fd86adfa6c" dir="auto" class="min-h-8 text-message relative flex w-full flex-col items-end gap-2 text-start break-words whitespace-normal [.text-message+&amp;]:mt-1" data-message-model-slug="gpt-5-2-instant"><div class="flex w-full flex-col gap-1 empty:hidden first:pt-[1px]"><div class="markdown prose dark:prose-invert w-full wrap-break-word light markdown-new-styling"><p data-start="0" data-end="138" data-is-last-node="" data-is-only-node=""> Marty Mauser, a young man with a dream that no one respects, goes through hell in pursuit of greatness. A review of Josh Safdie&#39;s film, nominated for seven Oscars.</p></div></div></div></div></div></div></article></div>

<div class="flex flex-col text-sm pb-25"><article class="text-token-text-primary w-full focus:outline-none [--shadow-height:45px] has-data-writing-block:pointer-events-none has-data-writing-block:-mt-(--shadow-height) has-data-writing-block:pt-(--shadow-height) [&amp;:has([data-writing-block])&gt;*]:pointer-events-auto scroll-mt-[calc(var(--header-height)+min(200px,max(70px,20svh)))]" dir="auto" data-turn-id="request-WEB:0cd35ba4-31c1-449b-9573-b32fd72cbfb9-12" data-testid="conversation-turn-8" data-scroll-anchor="true" data-turn="assistant" tabindex="-1"><div class="text-base my-auto mx-auto pb-10 [--thread-content-margin:--spacing(4)] @w-sm/main:[--thread-content-margin:--spacing(6)] @w-lg/main:[--thread-content-margin:--spacing(16)] px-(--thread-content-margin)"><div class="[--thread-content-max-width:40rem] @w-lg/main:[--thread-content-max-width:48rem] mx-auto max-w-(--thread-content-max-width) flex-1 group/turn-messages focus-visible:outline-hidden relative flex w-full min-w-0 flex-col agent-turn" tabindex="-1"><div class="flex max-w-full flex-col grow"><div data-message-author-role="assistant" data-message-id="fcfedb77-957f-4ea8-a11d-be1236f652cb" dir="auto" class="min-h-8 text-message relative flex w-full flex-col items-end gap-2 text-start break-words whitespace-normal [.text-message+&amp;]:mt-1" data-message-model-slug="gpt-5-2-instant"><div class="flex w-full flex-col gap-1 empty:hidden first:pt-[1px]"><div class="markdown prose dark:prose-invert w-full wrap-break-word light markdown-new-styling"><h3 data-start="0" data-end="178" style="text-align: justify;"> It&#39;s 1952, and Marty Mauser sells shoes in his uncle&#39;s claustrophobic shop on the Lower East Side, trapped in a life that isn&#39;t his own. Ping pong is his only escape.</h3></div></div></div></div></div></div></article></div>

<p data-start="0" data-end="444" style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Marty Mauser</strong> is a young Jew who did not directly experience the horrors of the Holocaust. His religious identity, in this <strong data-start="128" data-end="144">secular epic</strong> , remains a peripheral element. If it were not <strong data-start="204" data-end="245">precisely crafted</strong> by <a href="https://www.lofficielitalia.com/fashion/marty-supreme-look-timothee-chalamet-kylie-jenner-orange-premiere-red-carpet-la" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong data-start="270" data-end="311"><span class="hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline"><span class="whitespace-normal">Timothée Chalamet</span></span></strong></a> &#39;s performance, the protagonist of <strong>&quot;Marty Supreme&quot;</strong> would be openly reprehensible. Yet everything in the film contributes to eliciting empathy. The camera lingers stubbornly on his face: the makeup accentuates the acne lines, while the contact lenses—worn to reduce his vision—allow him to wear glasses that make his eyes smaller, making him both vulnerable and indecipherable. The soundtrack accompanies <strong>Marty</strong> with a <strong data-start="772" data-end="827">magnificent interweaving of synthesizers, strings, and choirs</strong> , alternating original songs with iconic additions (Tears for Fears, Alphaville), imparting a pressing rhythm to every sequence.</p>

<p data-start="953" data-end="1386" style="text-align: justify;">Everything leads us to fall in love with this tireless character who, for <strong data-start="1027" data-end="1047">two and a half hours</strong> —literally— <strong data-start="1066" data-end="1075">runs</strong> . Marty possesses extraordinary stamina, an almost ferocious unwaveringness. His often contemptuous attitude closely recalls some of <strong>Robert De Niro</strong> &#39;s work directed by Scorsese, a director both the <strong>Safdie</strong> brothers often watch (and who reciprocates their admiration). <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: inherit;"><strong>&quot;Marty Supreme&quot;</strong> isn&#39;t afraid to</span> <strong data-start="1416" data-end="1442">challenge and push</strong> <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">the boundaries that contemporary political correctness would have us believe to be insurmountable, as when interviewed by a group of journalists, Marty ventures a shocking joke about Auschwitz. &quot;Okay,&quot; he laughs, &quot;I&#39;m Jewish, I can say that.&quot;</span></p>

<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">While <strong>Josh Safdie</strong> &#39;s film can be read as a clear stand against the doctrine of success at all costs, against the toxic myth of the American dream, the story unfolds as a vibrant epic constructed on a</span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">narrative thread that veers, but never strays, towards frenetic, comical, and sometimes brutal detours.</span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">The film is constructed as a layered amalgam of themes—</span> <span style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>family, community, class, assimilation, and</strong> the aforementioned <strong>success</strong> —</span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">and references that, not unlike the other <a href="https://www.lofficielitalia.com/pop-culture/oscar-2026-nomination-lista-live-video" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>2026 Oscar</strong></a> frontrunner, &quot;One Battle After Another,&quot; offer a simultaneously unsettling and electrifying mirror of contemporary American society.</span></p>

<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The story unfolds over the course of nine months, the same amount of time it takes for the character played by the magnetic and intense <strong>Odessa A&#39;zion</strong> to carry Marty&#39;s child to term. This temporal parallel imbues the narrative with an almost mythological tension. Can the story of an ordinary man be epic? John Safdie answers yes, entrusting his protagonist with the fears, obsessions, and inconsistencies of modern man. If you don&#39;t fight for success, are you truly a man?</span></p>

<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Safdie digs with surgical brutality into the relationships that define Marty: with his mother (Fran Drescher), with his friends ( <strong>Tyler, The Creator</strong> ), with the women who cross his life: the young and impulsive <span>Rachel (</span> <strong>Odessa A&#39;zion</strong> ) and the twilight character played by a splendid</span> <span style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://www.lofficielitalia.com/pop-culture/gucci-evento-sfilata-milano-fashion-week-star-foto" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>Gwyneth Paltrow</strong></a> , Key Stone</span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">. In one epiphanic sentence in the film, Marty expresses his desire for affirmation without filters, revealing a vision of the world in which everything is expendable. When he discovers that Odessa lied about the abuse she suffered from her husband in order to follow him, he makes her understand with icy clarity how much his life matters and how nothing, no one, can stand between him and achieving his goal: winning the ping pong championship. She, on the other hand, has no reason that can guide her, no autonomous trajectory to claim.</span></p>

<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Yet success may not come. Indeed, Safdie seems to suggest—without rhetoric and rejecting didactic pretensions—that it isn&#39;t essential at all, and that even the path leading to it may not be worth living. Marty&#39;s tears before his newborn son brutally brings him back to the essential, to what truly matters: to love and be loved. A belated, fragile revelation, but perhaps the only authentic victory possible.</span></p>

<h3 style="text-align: justify;">Cast and characters</h3>

<p style="text-align: justify;">The cast of <strong>“Marty Supreme”</strong> brings together a diverse and powerful human mosaic. <strong data-start="80" data-end="121"><span class="hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline"><span class="whitespace-normal">Timothée Chalamet</span></span></strong> leads the film with a feverish performance. Alongside him, <strong data-start="242" data-end="283"><span class="hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline"><span class="whitespace-normal">Gwyneth Paltrow</span></span></strong> embodies a complex and twilight female character, while <strong data-start="349" data-end="390"><span class="hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline"><span class="whitespace-normal">Odessa A&#39;zion</span></span></strong> imposes a magnetic and nervous presence. The cast is enriched by the surprising performance of <strong data-start="527" data-end="568"><span class="hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline"><span class="whitespace-normal">Kevin O&#39;Leary</span></span></strong> , and the energy of <strong data-start="628" data-end="669"><span class="hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline"><span class="whitespace-normal">Tyler Okonma aka The Creator</span></span></strong> , in his film debut. Further depth is provided by <strong data-start="742" data-end="783"><span class="hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline"><span class="whitespace-normal">Abel Ferrara</span></span></strong> , <strong data-start="818" data-end="859"><span class="hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline"><span class="whitespace-normal">Fran Drescher</span></span></strong> , <strong data-start="929" data-end="970"><span class="hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline"><span class="whitespace-normal">Luke Manley</span></span></strong> , and real-life ping pong champion <strong data-start="973" data-end="1014"><span class="hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline"><span class="whitespace-normal">Koto Kawaguchi</span></span></strong> <span class="hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline"><span class="whitespace-normal">.</span></span></p>

<h3 style="text-align: justify;">Watch the trailer for Marty Supreme</h3>

Marty Supreme, vibrant and brutal: Chalamet and the desperate pursuit of success

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