It's not unlike the "seduction" scene from Budd Boetticher's Seven Men From Now--a strange connection, I know, but defensible from the perspective of the two pictures' poetic, romantic brevity.
Cinematic modernism reaches a plateau when, while a crowd cheers Eisenhower and de Gaulle along the Champs-Élysées, the characters give the slip to the cops by hiding out in a movie theater that is playing Budd Boetticher’s Westbound.