Apartment

Year: 1960

Grade: up

Country: USA

Director: Wilder

Review

let me first say that looking at shirley maclaine fourty years ago you would never have known she would end up the ugly pseudo-red head that she is now. that aside….this is a great film. billy wilder (double indemnity, sunset blvd…) wrote and directed this great piece of work. as a story it’s great, but as a film it’s even better. at times it was really really ahead of its time – in terms of social commentary – the things which aren’t talked about in the open, as it were. but i guess that’s not a problem for ole billy wilder – i hear that the seven year itch had some trouble along the lines of sexual innuendo and politics…at any rate, this was a good film, especially for the hopeless romantics out there.