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The Apartment (Billy Wilder, USA, 1960)
Winner of five Academy awards, The Apartment is writer/director Billy Wilder's bittersweet, heart-rending tragicomedy of a compliant insurance clerk (Jack Lemmon) who secretly lends out his apartment to other company executives for adulterous sexual affairs and liaisons. The plot thickens when the clerk realizes that his building's elevator operator is being taken for trysts by his married boss to his apartment. The sophisticated yet cynical film of the early 60s is a bleak assessment of corporate America, big business, success, and the work ethic.