Dementia Friendly: The Apartment (PG)

Deliriously funny, The Apartment is also shot through with Wilder’s customary wit and cynicism, creating a bleak vision of estrangement in the modern working city. 

Celebrated art director Alexander Trauner designed the cavernous open-plan office. The film won five Academy Awards, including best picture and best director.

Following the popular and critical success of his gender-bending farce Some Like It Hot (1959), Wilder reteamed with screenwriter I.A.L. Diamond for this darker comedy set in the world of nine-to-five corporate New York. Jack Lemmon was again on hand, this time as lonely office bottom-runger C.C. Baxter, who goes after promotion by allowing his seniors the use of his apartment for their extramarital liaisons. Meanwhile, he hopes to catch the eye of the sassy elevator girl, Fran Kubelik (Shirley Maclaine).

Our Dementia Friendly screenings are designed to meet the needs of people living with dementia along with their families and carers. These sessions offer a supportive and accessible environment with reduced sound levels and low lighting, freedom to move around or sing along and has a short comfort break in the middle of the film.

If you would like to find out more information about our Dementia Friendly screenings, please email getinvolved@cornexchangenew.co.uk or call the Box Office on 01635 522733.