love-affair

I’d never seen Wilder and Lemmon’s follow-up to Some Like It Hot; I went in expecting a bedroom farce and got something darker and more tender. Lemmon is perfect as Bud, who’s complicit and knows very well what he’s getting himself into. He was always good at imbuing his characters with the right amount of pathetic, and Buddy Boy is weary, supplicant and accommodating to his horrible superiors. MacLaine is great as Fran, and she and Lemmon have good chemistry. There’s plenty of sadness amid the corporate corruption, but there’s also Bud draining spaghetti through a tennis racket.