You'll want to see this. Great acting and writing. Billy Wilder at his best. Excellent commentary on love, workplace, women's rights.
The writing is clear and tight. The character development is so very well dime. You get to know them so very well. You get a good lens into the limitations of work for women. The affairs at work-- all too common in the 50s and 60s and how they maneuvered them.
Jack Lemmon is not one of my favorite actors and he is too birch. He's just a great actor. Nuanced, real and you trust he is doing the right thing or will do the right thing.
Shirley McLaine is authentic and luminous.
Birth are good people but have strong failings, making them relatable.
Fred McMurray is a shock and he is such a good Lérida in real life. His understated nefariousness is chilling to watch. A great, underrated actor.
Work History It's enjoyable and amazing to watch a piece from 1960- and how much the workplace has changed! The work scene shows dozens of rows of desks and workers. What a change from 60 years later! Now in Silicon Valley workplaces look like living rooms and do comfy. It's. A bit of a shock and good to see how strict and uniform it is, to understand what it is was like to climb the corporate. Ladder.
It's not a comedy. It's a drama. Be prepared for some heavy issues, with some comedic moments. Excellent commentary on love, workplace, women's rights.
The writing is clear and tight. The character development is so very well dime. You get to know them so very well. You get a good lens into the limitations of work for women. The affairs at work-- all too common in the 50s and 60s and how they maneuvered them.
Jack Lemmon is not one of my favorite actors and he is too birch. He's just a great actor. Nuanced, real and you trust he is doing the right thing or will do the right thing.
Shirley McLaine is authentic and luminous.
Birth are good people but have strong failings, making them relatable.
Fred McMurray is a shock and he is such a good Lérida in real life. His understated nefariousness is chilling to watch. A great, underrated actor.
Work History It's enjoyable and amazing to watch a piece from 1960- and how much the workplace has changed! The work scene shows dozens of rows of desks and workers. What a change from 60 years later! Now in Silicon Valley workplaces look like living rooms and do comfy. It's. A bit of a shock and good to see how strict and uniform it is, to understand what it is was like to climb the corporate. Ladder.
It's not a comedy. It's a drama. Be prepared for some heavy issues, with some comedic moments. Excellent commentary on love, workplace, women's rights.