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The Apartment
A story of a salesperson - C.C. Baxter lends his boss apartment to affair with mistres. The boss of the board, other rooms want to book a place in Baxter's apartment for their 'xxx' . But one day, Baxter shockes to see Sheldrake in his room with Kubelik, whom he secretly loves..
29 August 1914, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
5 June 1878, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
5 February 1904, Bixby, Oklahoma, USA
24 June 1922, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
6 November 1914
16 December 1920, Kansas City, Missouri, USA
15 August 1900, Reading, Pennsylvania, USA
24 August 1916, Petoskey, Michigan, USA
10 October 1931, Berlin, Germany
June 15, 2012
Beautifully written and directed by the great Billy Wilder, bittersweet and heartfelt, this is sheer delight.
June 10, 2008
With tremendous performances by the two leads (Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine), this is yet another "must see" title to be found on Wilder's resume.
February 23, 2015
Production and direction wise, Wilder sustains his usual excellence. But his story is controversial and I am not one of those who can quite see The Apartment as the great comedy-drama he evidently intended it to be.
February 10, 2014
From such potentially edgy material Wilder and co-writer IAL Diamond sculpt an unforgettable romance.
June 08, 2012
Directed by Wilder with attention to detail and emotional reticence that belie its inherent darkness and melodramatic core, it's lifted considerably by the performances.
February 24, 2013
Despite some entertaining moments and a terrific performance by its lead, it's not a perfect film and does have some problems.
August 15, 2007
Most of the time, it's up to director Wilder to sustain a two-hour-plus film on treatment alone, a feat he manages to accomplish more often than not, and sometimes the results are amazing.
July 29, 2012
{VIDEO ESSAY} Billy Wilder's classic Manhattan-based romantic comedy comes with a sly critique regarding 50's era corporate culture of rampant misogyny and unbridled ambition.
February 18, 2009
A comedy of men's-room humours and water-cooler politics that now and then among the belly laughs says something serious and sad about the struggle for success, about what it often does to a man, and about the horribly small world of big business.
June 15, 2012
When assessing his own work Billy Wilder described The Apartment as being the film with the fewest mistakes. And he is right: it is as near to perfect as is possible.
August 07, 2014
...despite all its cynicism, The Apartment still ends on a hopeful note...
July 01, 2013
Wilder, a bilious and mercurial wit, here becomes a wide-screen master of time ...
