Songs of Innocence and Experience replayed as a strip-lit corporate nightmare, The Apartment charts C. C. Baxter's rise from timid clerk to team player and descent from mensch to monster in exchange for lending his apartment for his boss's cinq-a-septs. Meanwhile, Maclaine simpers in the emotional crossfire. A dingy masterpiece.
Due for an unveiling at this year's London Film Festival, The Apartment is Billy Wilder's last great film. Bud Baxter is on his way up. A Junior Executive bowler, an... more >
Due for an unveiling at this year's London Film Festival, The Apartment is Billy Wilder's last great film. Bud Baxter is on his way up. A Junior Executive bowler, an office on the 27th Floor, the key to the Executive Washroom...all for the price of a hard day's work, his conscience, and the key to his apartment. Fran Kubelik is the elevator girl he adores. Always ready with a smile...then he finds her in a coma on his bed, and begins to wake up... Telling of a few weeks amidst the cut-and-thrust of corporate Manhattan, Wilder's darkest of comedies gave notice of an ominous postmodern morality. < less
