Sunday Lovers is a fitfully amusing study of weekend romantic techniques as practiced in four different cultures. Each episode was filmed by a separate unit in the country where the story was set. "The French Method" (directed by Eduoard Molinaro) finds a businessman (
Lino Ventura) trying to secure an important contract through the sexual allure of his secretary (Catherine Salviat)--only to give up the whole enterprise when he discovers that the secretary would be more valuable as a business partner. "An Englishman's Home" (directed by
Bryan Forbes) is all about a chauffeur (
Roger Moore) who poses as his boss in order to impress a series of sexy stewardesses. "Armando's Notebook" (directed by
Dino Risi) finds a middle-aged Italian husband (
Ugo Tognazzi) arranging an affair when his wife leaves town. And "Skippy" stars
Gene Wilder (who also directed the segment) as an American psychiatric patient who falls in love with the equally neurotic
Priscilla Barnes. The best part of Sunday Lovers is the Italian sketch; the worst (in fact, it's unbelievably bad) is the Gene Wilder sequence. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide