Overview

• Director Josh Safdie and star Timothée Chalamet surprised the Alice Tully Hall crowd, with Safdie noting he finished the cut at 2 a.m. and that they were the first audience.
• Critics and attendees praised Chalamet’s turn as career-best and flagged awards potential, and the screening concluded with a standing ovation.
• Set in the 1950s, the film follows table-tennis phenom Marty Mauser and was co-written by Safdie and Ronald Bronstein for A24.
• The ensemble features Gwyneth Paltrow, Odessa A’zion, Tyler Okonma, Kevin O’Leary, Abel Ferrara, Fran Drescher and Sandra Bernhard, with Tyler the Creator publicly lauding Safdie’s direction.
• The project carries a reported budget of about $70 million, described as A24’s most expensive, with Eli Bush, Anthony Katagas, Chalamet and A24 among its producers.