You know, clearly out of date.
The guy throwing her wife's things all over the staircase to hurry her up to leave? The older couple saying 'you see, that's how you know they love each other'! (well, the wife says it, the hub/ogre just grunts)? And the young wife accepting the cheating love rat back? PUH-LEASE!!!
Or is this a French thing?
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It's not at all uncommon for people to get back together with cheating lovers. Christine clearly still cared about Antoine; also she no doubt had reservations about being a single mother with a toddler. But Antoine's tossing her belonging on the steps to make her hurry, plus the older male neighbor's skeptical look suggest that things are never going to be as they were before.
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You can disagree with motivations and actions in the film, but that isn't the same thing as the film being out of date.
These things still go on in the world today. I've had experiences similar to Antoine and I wasn't yet born when this film was made. I'm not French either.
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Out of date?
The ending was an ironic nod to something that had already occurred earlier with an older couple. It was meant to point out where Christine and Antoine now were in their relationship. There's nothing "dated" about that.
And there's nothing "out of date" about a woman accepting her unfaithful husband back either.
Now if you merely wanted to say that this film isn't very good... I wouldn't necessarily disagree.
Since it's Antoine we're talking about right now, it must be said that there's no doubt that he's a selfish, whiny as-hole in this film. What is truly enigmatic - but not "dated" - is that Christine never seems to stop loving him, happily receiving his phone calls while he's on some date with the woman he cheated on her for (that scene was certainly comic though... mostly because Antoine is an as-hole and he deserves that kind of suffering). And it completely confuses me as to what redeemable qualities of his that Christine finds so damn attractive? That's something that simply escapes me. I've never required my protagonists to be like-able, relate-able folks but I do like them to be a little more interesting and complicated than Doinel is in here.
Clear eyes, full hearts, can't lose.