Kubelik ( Shirley MacLaine), who is in fact the mistress of his boss Sheldrake ( Fred MacMurray). Billy Wilder’s film, maybe the greatest romantic comedy ever made, stars Jack Lemmon as an ambitious, lonely office drone who lets his higher-ups use his apartment for their extra-marital affairs. Perhaps more than anything else, this makes “The Apartment” a Christmas movie: though it spans a few months and climaxes memorably on New Year’s Eve, the film makes as great a use of the holidays as anything else here. If a Christmas-time setting is useful for anything, it’s often to play up a sense of loneliness in a character -the holidays are meant to be a time to spend with loved ones and family, and you can isolate a character beautifully by the simple means of surrounding them with festive revels. Nightmare Film Shoots: 28 of the Most Grueling Films Ever Made 'Carol' Reunion Official as Rooney Mara Joins del Toro's 'Nightmare Alley' With Blanchettįrom 'Nymphomaniac' to 'Shortbus,' a History of Unsimulated Sex Scenes in 32 Films IndieWire's Chief Film Critic Eric Kohn Picks the Best Movies of 2020 - Year in Review
