The Apartment
(La Garçonnière)

C.C. Baxter, office drone for an insurance company, lends his bachelor pad to some of his unfaithful colleagues in the hope of a promotion. The director uses it as a place to take the young and pretty Fran, whom Baxter secretly loves ... One year after the delicious and mythical Some Like It Hot, Billy Wilder evokes the weakness and loneliness of men lost in the immensity of big and anonymous offices. Sharp vision of the American Way of Life, this funny but moving drama introduces Jack Lemmon as a cowardly charming guy next door face to Shirly MacLaine, dazzling with fragility. A bittersweet jewel, crowned with five Oscars in 1960.