“This could be my last conversation.”
Vincent “Vince” Mafila, a gardener is his late 50s, He buried his dreams and settled for a quiet life. Vince firmly believes that being a “good” person equates getting all good things in life. That belief is proven wrong when he is diagnosed with cancer and probably has a month to live. Now he is haunted by his past and trapped by regrets for not living his truth. Each week he consults a therapist to help him face his sudden reality. Instead of opening up he chooses to sleep for the entire session and dream of what his life could have been.
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Mr. Mafila
As Islamic morality squads stage arbitrary raids in Tehran and as fundamentalists seize hold of the universities, Azar Nafisi, an inspired teacher, secretly gathers six of her most committed female students to read forbidden western classics. Unaccustomed to being asked to speak their minds, they soon removed their veils, their stories intertwining with the novels they read: just like the heroines of Nabokov, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Henry James or Jane Austen, the women in Nafisi’s living room dare to dream, hope and love as we experience the complexity of the lives of individuals facing political, moral and personal siege.
