In that 2010 drama, which marked his return to narrative filmmaking, a French gallery owner living in Tuscany (Juliette Binoche) meets a British philosopher (William Shimell), and they pretend to be husband and wife.

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One of its early victims was French philosopher Michel Foucault, also gay, who invited White over for dinner a few times for rich meals without vegetables.

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