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The cinema is usually where audiences go to escape the monotony of the daily grind, but filmmakers are often keen to drag us back to the offices where we reluctantly spend our lives. The farce and boredom of the corporate ladder is an ideal arena for comedy, and never has it been mocked more forensically than in Billy Wilder’s 1960 romantic comedy-drama, The Apartment. Following the professional and romantic relationships in the life of a sheepish insurance clerk, the film centred the role of the workplace in shaping our everyday existence, and in doing so set the template for decades…