Age: 49
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Denis Menochet (born 1977 in Enghien-les-Bains, Val-d'Oise) is a French film and television actor. Menochet is perhaps best known to an international audience for his role as Perrier LaPadite, a French dairy farmer interrogated by the Nazis for harboring Jews, in the 2009 Quentin Tarantino film, Inglourious Basterds. Elizabeth Weitzman, a film critic for the New York Daily News, praised Menochet's work opposite Christoph Waltz in the opening scene of Inglorious Basterds. Weitzman wrote in August 2009, "The terrific opening, for example, does feature a hailstorm of bullets. What you'll remember best, though, is the haunted silence of actor Denis Menochet, playing a French farmer accused of harboring Jews."
Denis Ménochet
Claude Barret
for Claude Barret in Waiting For Adolphe
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A cozy dinner among lifelong friends is thrown into chaos when Vincent Leprince, charming, confident, and soon to be a father, casually reveals the name he plans to give his unborn son: Adolphe. What starts as a joke—or so everyone hopes—hits a nerve instantly. Pierre Salomon, Élisabeth’s husband and a proud Marxist who despises everything tied to fascism, erupts in disbelief. Élisabeth tries to mediate, but Vincent enjoys provoking Pierre just a little too much. Meanwhile, Anna Delambre, Vincent’s pregnant wife, watches the storm with a mix of confusion and amusement. And their childhood friend Claude Barret, always the quiet observer, suddenly finds himself pulled into the argument. Within minutes, the warm family gathering spirals into a sharp, hilarious, and bitter clash. Political ideologies collide, personal grievances resurface, and long-ignored tensions between siblings, spouses, and friends bubble up fast. As the night unravels, the name “Adolphe” becomes more than a name—it becomes the match that sets off a chain of confessions, accusations, and revelations that these five people never expected to face at a simple dinner at home. By the end, this seemingly trivial conversation forces everyone to confront who they are, what they believe, and how fragile even the closest relationships can be.
