This was a weird one, a failed experiment in my opinion, can’t really tell what Lelouche wanted to say.
The director himself tells how he wanted to get Deneuve and Dutronc together and he failed to do so, because there was too much respect between the two actors.
The first part of the film is set up in France and has the traces of the Nouvelle Vague themes – the two misunderstood fugitives, hidden by two well intentioned old people at their farm etc.
A touch of Bunuel at some point by inserting a dream which gives an alternative solution to the end of the story.
Perhaps the second part of the film, set up in America, is more interesting. I recognized immediately the French candid vision of the USA (see “Atlanctic City”, La Nuit Americaine”).
Here is a Kubrickesque scene, in a bar of the American cold far north:
And here is the final shot, showing how one could enter New York through the back door (I’m wondering if this image is real):
