Review of The Apartment (1960) by Arth J — 11 Jun 2018

A cozy place to drain out all the stress..

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.