A Jack Lemmon and Shirley Maclean treat! A great original concept, with both laughter and more serious moments.

The Apartment The premise is promising and has potential enough to feed off the audience throughout the course of its almost two hours of runtime where the feature never dips even for a single frame. It is short on technical aspects like sound department and production design but is surely edited perfectly with sensible choices. The writing is strong, witty and gripping that keeps the audience engaged and connected with the pragmatic characters which also resembles with them on tons of stuffs and keeps it grounded. Billy Wilder; the screenwriters and director, is in his A game and doing some of his best work through his brilliant execution skills. The performance by Jack Lemmon is achingly good and is supported too by a great cast like Shirley MacLaine; her comic timing is bang on the money. It hits hard and fast and swoops in through his comic tone and also offers enough range and room for each character and actor to factor in to the bigger picture. The Apartment is a cozy place to drain out all the stress despite of its complex and witty verbal sparring that actually helps up the ante of the feature and enters into the major league.

Intelligently written and beautifully shot; The Apartment follows a gullible pushover C.C. getting taken advantage of for his apartment which is located in a prime nightlife side of town. He keeps his head down and his mouth shut , fore he seeks promotions with his apartment hustle. Eventually the head boss catches wind of his scheme - and promotes C.C. to the top position , in exchange to use the apartment to screw the woman C.C. secretly loves at his job.Great framing , all wide shots no close-ups. Excellent use of supporting/background characters (the doc, the neighbors, some lower-level employees, head boss mistress secretary, biker brother-in-law) . Overall great experience of how cinema once was8.5/10 - It's aged but it aged well

Many consider this movie to be one of the best of all times. I wouldn't go that far, but it certainly is evergreen classic. Billy Wilder well deserved all three Oscars he won, for best movie, best screenplay and best directing. Movie won five Oscars out of ten nominations. Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine will mesmerize you with combination of drama, comedy and romance. This is one beautiful movie that everyone should see.9/10