Determined to collect an inheritance from a dying relative, a bourgeois couple travel across the French countryside while civilization crashes and burns around them. Featuring a justly famous centerpiece sequence in which the camera tracks along a seemingly endless traffic jam, and rich with historical and literary references, is a surreally funny and disturbing call for revolution, a depiction of society retreating to savagery, and, according to the credits, the end of cinema itself.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1967. Special features: New, restored high-definition digital transfer; new video essay by film critic Kent Jones; archival interviews with actors; excerpt from a French television program on director Jean-Luc Godard; trailers; booklet.