Sunday, February 8, 2015

The Apartment (1960)



A man tries to rise in his company by letting its executives use his apartment for trysts, but complications and a romance of his own ensue.

One of Billy Wilder's best films and a classic: a brilliantly cynical comedy (if you want to call it that) and romance about two  kindhearted losers amidst a bleak and immoral world, wonderfully played by MacLaine and Lemmon.

Halliwell**: "Overlong and patchy but agreeably mordant and cynical comedy with a sparkling view of city office life and some deftly handled individual sequences."

Maltin****: "Superb comedy-drama that manages to embrace both sentiment and cynicism."


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