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. 'Carol' Reunion Official as Rooney Mara Joins del Toro's 'Nightmare Alley' With Blanchettġ9 Best Erotic Thrillers, from Adrian Lyne to Brian De Palmaīest Movies Never Made: 35 Lost Projects from Christopher Nolan, Quentin Tarantino, and More IndieWire's Chief Film Critic Eric Kohn Picks the Best Movies of 2020 - Year in Review
