Today you have one of the most interesting and ignored movies of the year on Prime Video

Nine Oscar nominations, more than $179 million at the global box office, and one of the most extravagant marketing campaigns Hollywood has given in years (an orange blimp flying over entire cities, Timothée Chalamet perched on the Las Vegas sphere). Still,’Marty Supreme‘She left the last Oscars, where she started as one of the favorites, empty-handed. And (also) still, it is in Prime Videostanding out as one of the most interesting films of the moment.

There are films that reach streaming with that aura of a second chance, of being able to achieve on platforms what was not achieved with its premiere (despite the notorious box office for a production of these characteristics, the greatest success in the United States in the history of its production company, the venerated A24). It was nominated for nine Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Actor for Timothée Chalamet, and went home with nothing, following the path of other illustrious recent nods such as ‘The Banshee of Inisherin’ or ‘The Moon Killers’.

‘Marty Supreme’ is directed by Josh Safdie and written with Ronald Bronstein, a creative duo who already collaborated on titles such as ‘Diamonds in the Rough’ and ‘Good Time’. The film moves away from the traditional biopic to become an action-adventure comedy in the spirit of ‘Catch Me If You Can’ or ‘The Wolf of Wall Street’. The central character, Marty Mauser, is a fictionalized version of the real player Marty Reisman, a young man who discovers his passion for table tennis in the city’s clandestine clubsand whose very personal style of play leads him to become a famous champion who accumulates 22 major titles and represents the United States in world competitions.

But the important thing here is not the zero Oscars, but the values ​​of the film: it is a delight how Safdie manipulates genres to mix them, how he builds the rhythm of his sequences, and above all, Chalamet’s performance is impressive in what may be the best work of his career. So it’s not about confirming whether the Oscars were right or wrong, but rather about recovering a film that deserves all the attention we can give it.

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