The Apartment

1960 • 125 minutes

À propos de ce film

Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine and Fred MacMurray are superb in this tale of love and ambition in the world of big business that went on to garner a Best Picture Oscar.

Notes et avis

Really good movie. I'm not sure but I think it was the first movie to tackle such a serious subject as suicide. The only thing I will say I'd that it didn't age well and to know that this beat Psycho that has bothered me after watching this. It's still one of the best movies of its time for the writing and the subject it deals with it.

When I rented this movie from the library, I hadn't heard of Billy Wilder and was just going to sit down and try to watch a film I hadn't seen. I watched 10 minutes of the film and my friend walked in and I restarted it to show him the beginning , trying to show him how good this film was in the first 10 minutes. So we restarted it and he agreed to only watch the first ten minutes to get a feel for it because it was nearly 1:00 a.m. and we ended up watching the entire film. That's the power of Billy Wilder.

May be my favorite movie of all time. MacLaine and Lemmon are great together, supporting actors well-chosen and very funny, and Fred McMurray surprisingly good as the self-centered boss/Married Man. Every time I watch it I catch some innuendo not noticed before. (Quite a risque script for 1960!) Jack Lemmon just breaks one's heart, he IS the heart of the movie. His happy opera-singing while making spaghetti and meat-balls is in a class by itself.