The movie asks: Is love possible between men, or is it possible only between innocent boys?

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Mouret himself plays a love-starved Parisian, who asks a married friend (Virginie Ledoyen) to sate his hunger.

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"Hillary Clinton is a voter, and we are voters and we love her and we will do most of what she asks us to do, " Bower said.

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Where better, Mr de Botton asks, to feel that pang of desire than spotting a potential love interest across the food hall of a motorway service station - isolated, vulnerable and even unhappy.

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So the monster asks his creator, Frankenstein, to make a creature like himself, someone to love.

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