The Apartment

Made the year after Some Like it Hot, The Apartment again sees Billy Wilder teaming up with Jack Lemmon, this time for a truly bitter-sweet film which glides smoothly from comedy to pathos. Lemmon is an insurance clerk who, in the hope of promotion, lends out his apartment to senior executives lookmg for somewhere to take their girlfriends - the trouble starts when the girl whom Lemmon has fallen for (Shirley MacLaine), is taken there by his boss. A razor-sharp satire on the morals and ethics of the Real World, The Apartment is a superb film. Lemmon and MacLaine both act extremely well, and even the happy ending is rather moving. A personal favourite, this film deserves to be seen.

Review by Malcolm Maclaren
Taken from EUFS Programme 1993-94