SPIN KING CHALAMET TOPS TABLE

Timothée Chalamet wields a ping pong bat with verve and strokes his way into Oscar contention in a life-affirming drama loosely inspired by the life of a New York Jewish table tennis prodigy.

- MARTY SUPREME

Co-written by director Josh Safdie and longtime collaborator Ronald Bronstein, Marty Supreme embraces a fast-talking dreamer with unshakeable self-belief, who opens the film by impregnating his married lover (Odessa A'zion) to a euphoric burst of German synth-pop band Alphaville's anthem Forever Young."Let us die young or let us live forever," sings lead vocalist Marian Gold at the start of the second verse. That's a mantra which Marty Mauser (Chalamet) can support. He sells shoes in 1952 New York in a Lower East Side store run by his uncle Murray (Larry "Ratso" Sloman) - one of the many doubters of