Josh Safdie’s “Marty Supreme,” now in theaters, is filled with ‘80s bangers, including Tears for Fears’ “Everybody Wants to Rule the World” and Peter Gabriel’s “I Have the Touch.”
But Safdie’s latest film — starring Timothée Chalamet as a young man from New York’s Lower East Side who dreams big and aspires to conquer the world of table tennis — is set in the 1950s.
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It’s an intriguing juxtaposition that totally works because it’s not an ordinary period piece.
Safdie, who also edited the film and wrote the screenplay alongside Ronald Bronstein, was inspired while watching a video of a
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