Probably my favorite DVD package this year was Criterion 's '' Boudu Saved From Drowning , '' which combined the latest French restoration of Jean Renoir 's paean to paganism -- embodied by the world 's most repulsively lovable tramp , played by Michel Simon -- with a wealth of inventive extras , including an interactive map of Paris that allowed viewers to follow Boudu 's peristaltic path through the city -LRB- he is swallowed by the Seine on one side of the city and expelled by it on the other -RRB- .