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| Nelson_Mandela 05/14/19 8:01:32 PM #41: | #242. The Apartment https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/bb/Apartment_60.jpg Dir: Billy Wilder Genre: Comedy, Romance Year: 1960 The premise is absurd. Dude lends out his apartment so his bosses can bone their mistresses on his furniture, thereby helping him rise the corporate ranks. Through a series of wacky mishaps, Dude falls for one of the mistresses and hilarity ensues. It is really damn hard for me to like comedies from this era--especially romantic comedies. But the chemistry between Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine (who is ludicrously sexy here) in The Apartment is just off the charts. The movie also gets surprisingly dark at times (a Billy Wilder specialty), so it becomes pretty clear to anyone with a brain that the whole thing is a giant farcical satire. One of the few pre-Baby Boomer comedies I can really recommend! --- "A more mature answer than I expected."~ Jakyl25 "Sephy's point is right."~ Inviso ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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