The Apartment

just really beautifully made in all ways; it’s writing, acting, humour, cinematography. It captures loneliness so well. And the humour, set-ups and pay-offs just so simple yet unique. One of my favourites ever probably.

Cutest love story, movie aged like fine wine, makes you want to dress like a 1960s office worker and smoke a cigarette on a cold, dreary night alone under a streetlight

NYC apartments haven’t changed

Well, filmwise it was an absolute heartwarming experience, kublikwise my heart is smiling to its content to an amazing third act of so many twists and turns, cookiewise is a film that’s gonna be hard for me to forget!!

Another great film from Billy Wilder, and another Best Picture Winner checked off the list.

The real star here is the screenplay. Single-location films (or at least mostly) are notoriously hard to pull off because the writing has to be sharp and engaging enough to offset the confinement - but Wilder makes it look easy. Just like Some Like It Hot, The Apartment strikes that difficult balance between comedy and drama.

Jack Lemmon is incredible. The comedy is all there on the page for him, but his line delivery is what makes it land so well. Shirley MacLaine is equally as great; they both have such a fantastic screen presence and the “will they, won’t they” dynamic is handled brilliantly.

I was interested from the get-go, but the second half is where the film shines. No character is wasted, and no detail goes unused. Great film.

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