Josh Safdie on 'Marty Supreme': 'Life is what happens when you're dreaming'

"I'm very interested in seeing characters do the things that sometimes we cannot do," Josh Safdie said Thursday.

"There's something somewhat heroic in that." The impulse to root for someone you probably shouldn't cuts straight through "Marty Supreme," a rambunctious odyssey of a glory-obsessed ping-pong player that's now the highest-grossing title in A24's history.

It opened in Korea on Wednesday months after its stateside run, arriving with a reputation built as much on the film itself as its s ...