The Apartment

The Apartment 

What are you supposed to do on a rainy, windy night after your Professor gives you a pop-test???  

Cozy up on the couch to watch a classic movie of course!  

I love, love, loved The Apartment!  It wasn’t at all what I expected.  It’s always been referred to me as a classic romantic comedy, but it wasn’t that at all.  It was funny and romantic, but it was also suspenseful and dramatic. Jack Lemmon was incredible as C.C. Baxter, a hard working “cubicle” employee who loans his apartment out to his superiors as a location for their trysts. Watching his performance was inspiring to me as an actress, touching and surprising.  Shirley MacLaine’s performance as Fran Kubelik was subtle and charming and ultimately heartbreaking.  If you haven’t seen this film you absolutely MUST!  The film was directed by Billy Wilder (Sabrina, Sunset Blvd, The Seven Year Itch, Some Like it Hot) and was also written by him and I.A.L. Diamond...much of it was written as they filmed because Wilder and Diamond wanted to bring as much life and real chemistry into it as they could, even taking events and quotes from the actor’s lives and infusing them into the script.  I’ve never seen anything like it.  The DVD has two wonderful special features about the making of the film and about Jack Lemmon’s incredible talent as an actor.  Go rent it right now!