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L'Année dernière à Marienbad (Last Year at Marienbad)

Dir. Alain Resnais, screenplay Alain Robbe-Grillet, 1961

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Resnais's enigmatic film in which the character "M" repeatedly plays and wins misère Nim with the 1-3-5-7 configuration. The game becomes a metaphor for memory, manipulation, and unfreedom — the most celebrated cultural reception of a mathematical game in cinema.

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The Academy · May 27, 2026

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