"The location is a character in its own right in this movie." How many times have you read a similar statement in a film review? How many times did you hear a screenwriter, actor or director utter words to that effect in a promotional interview? It is a tried and tested way to play up the setting (or set design) of a movie, a clichéd comment that has become a staple of both film writing and promotion.I don't know if the makers of The Apartment (1960) ever used the same line to describe the eponymous dwelling "in the west sixties, just half a block from Central Park."1 If they did, it worked. Because Alexandre Trauner and Edward G. Boyle won an Academy Award for Best Art Direction and Set Decoration in a Black-and-White Movie for their work.In this video essay, the apartment really does get the starring role. Jack Lemmon,...
- 12/11/2018
- MUBI
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