“It’s brilliant…filmwise”
Flawless comedy starring Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine, about a lowly office worker (Lemmon) who allows his superiors at work to use his apartment for their secret affairs.
Lemmon plays C. C. Baxter, an eager-to-please pencil-pusher, whose private life is being ruined by his bosses, who are constantly taking advantage of him. Pushing Baxter out of his apartment at all hours of the day or night, drinking all his booze, and causing him to have the reputation of a scallywag with his neighbours, Baxter only continues with this horrendous“working relationship” in order to further his own career.
Conflict strikes though, when Baxter falls for a spunky elevator girl called Fran (MacLaine), who is having an affair with one of Baxter’s bosses…in Baxter’s apartment! As Baxter toes the line between flexible employee and friend to Fran, his apartment becomes the battle ground for an all-out drama.
Wonderfully witty and superbly scripted, The Apartment is a true comedy classic. Whilst the jokes are delivered with a sophisticated sharpness, there is a strong undercurrent of tragedy emanating from the two central characters. Baxter’s predicament leaves him dangerously depressed, whilst Fran’s complicated affair becomes the film’s most poignant storyline.
Unforgettably brilliant.
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