The Apartment (1960)
The Apartment
”A man loans his apartment to his company's executives for affairs, but falls in love with a woman.”
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Directed by Billy Wilder (of the brilliant 'A Double Life'), 'The Apartment' is the same kind of cynical, adult comedy that began to tackle more daring themes as restrictions of the Motion Picture Production Code (or "Hays Code") started to become looser in the Hollywood circuit. Winner of five Academy Awards (including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Screenplay) and nominated for another five, it is a movie that dared at the time to address adultery with humor, but also a good dose of melancholy, taking advantage of this to criticize the double standards of the era.
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A man tries to rise in his company by letting its executives use his apartment for trysts, but complications and a romance of his own ensue.
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