https://pileouface.media/en/en Pile ou Face is the home of long-form interviews: one guest, one hour, face to face with Denis Carreaux, no editing cuts. Every episode summarized, chaptered and quoted. https://pileouface.media/en/episodes/jo-wilfried-tsonga-what-s-left-when-tennis-stops-pv7o/https://pileouface.media/en/episodes/jo-wilfried-tsonga-what-s-left-when-tennis-stops-pv7o/Wed, 23 Sep 2026 16:00:18 +0000Denis Carreaux sits down with Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, former world number 5, for an interview that goes well beyond sport. Tsonga begins by discussing the values of simplicity instilled by his parents and the decisive role played by his primary school teacher in shaping his path. He introduces the association Attrape la Balle, founded by his parents in 2009 and since taken over by him and his brother, which now focuses on adapted sport for young people with mental and psychological disabilities. In the Pile ou Face segment, he analyses what he lacked to win a Grand Slam, pointing to nutrition and certain missed encounters, then reflects on thirty years of friendship and rivalry with Gael Monfils, Richard Gasquet and Gilles Simon. He then addresses his relationship with money and fame, followed by his mixed-race identity, a source of both strength and vulnerability. He describes the emptiness felt upon retiring from sport and how he fills it through entrepreneurship, family and fishing - a childhood passion that serves as his refuge. He concludes by saying he no longer wants to be judged and by recommending parenthood. https://pileouface.media/en/episodes/wildfires-conspiracy-theorists-arsonists-what-really-happened-this-summer-jfg8/https://pileouface.media/en/episodes/wildfires-conspiracy-theorists-arsonists-what-really-happened-this-summer-jfg8/Wed, 02 Sep 2026 16:00:05 +0000Eric Brocardi, spokesperson for the National Federation of French Firefighters, looks back on the summer of 2026, marked by mega-fires in Gironde, the Var, and across the country. He describes a heavy human toll with four firefighters killed and questions the value of a human life weighed against hectares to be saved. He explains that these phenomena, amplified by climate disruption and pyrocumulus clouds, are no longer exceptional. He advocates for the creation of a dedicated ministry to break firefighters out of the siloed operation between prefectures and departmental councils. He addresses the complementary role of Canadairs and ground forces, the communication operation surrounding the A400M, and the management of rumors and conspiracy theories on social media. He refutes accusations of unequal treatment between wealthy and ordinary areas, recalls firefighters' obligation of means, and argues for repurposing fire stations as community service hubs in rural areas. https://pileouface.media/en/episodes/tortured-imprisoned-acquitted-4-times-the-true-story-of-pinar-selek-fyhe/https://pileouface.media/en/episodes/tortured-imprisoned-acquitted-4-times-the-true-story-of-pinar-selek-fyhe/Wed, 12 Aug 2026 16:00:12 +0000Pinar Selek, sociologist and writer teaching at the Université Côte d'Azur, looks back on her research conducted in the 1990s on Kurdish movements, in a context of total war in which more than 6,000 villages were burned. Arrested in 1998, her notebooks and floppy disks confiscated, she refused under torture to reveal her sources and the identities of her contacts. She describes the physical after-effects: electric shock to the brain, a broken back, an inability to move her fingers for eight months. Accused of terrorism, she faced a demand for the death penalty. Acquitted four times by judges, the Court of Cassation overturned each verdict. She left Turkey in 2009, settled in France and continued to publish. Her mother and father supported her throughout this ordeal. She presents her book Lever la tête as an act of resistance. The Pile ou Face segment explores her fears, her practical regrets about securing her data and her attachment to the Mediterranean as an identity space beyond political borders. https://pileouface.media/en/episodes/rael-cult-she-wins-her-lawsuit-and-speaks-out-about-20-years-under-control-yqgu/https://pileouface.media/en/episodes/rael-cult-she-wins-her-lawsuit-and-speaks-out-about-20-years-under-control-yqgu/Wed, 29 Jul 2026 16:00:06 +0000Lydia Hadjara explains how her mother enrolled her as a child in the Raelian movement, presented as a summer camp. At 9, Claude Vorilhon approaches her at the poolside of the Eden camp and promises to see her again. At 13, she is forcibly initiated into sexual acts by a bishop guide, presented as preparation for Rael. At 18, she becomes one of his chosen ones, signs a contract, and endures coerced intercourse and physical abuse. She describes how the guru is financed by his followers and his current life in Japan. In October 2007, the gaze of a waitress during a meal triggers her escape. She then recounts discovering the control she was under, anorexia, three hospitalizations, and the damage to her relationship with Sylvain, the father of her children. In November 2025, she files a complaint against Vorilhon and two disciples. Rael sued her for defamation: she won that case. She criticizes the inaction of the Miviludes and claims a whistleblower role, refusing the status of victim. https://pileouface.media/en/episodes/nice-terror-attack-10-years-later-the-hero-on-a-scooter-and-what-his-actions-cos-ssd8/https://pileouface.media/en/episodes/nice-terror-attack-10-years-later-the-hero-on-a-scooter-and-what-his-actions-cos-ssd8/Sun, 12 Jul 2026 17:00:14 +0000Denis Carreaux welcomes Franck Terrier, known as the scooter hero, ten years after the July 14, 2016 attack in Nice. Franck Terrier looks back on that evening: his wife is the first to sense the danger, he quickly realizes the truck is being driven deliberately, drops off his wife and pursues the vehicle. He throws his scooter under the wheels, climbs onto the running board, strikes the driver, receives a blow from a gun butt, falls back, and takes shelter under the front left wheel when police open fire. He is then roughed up by officers who ignore him. In the days that follow, he is nicknamed the scooter hero, a status he struggles with. He describes the loss of lightness, a deep depression triggered by the attack at the Paris police prefecture, and a two-month hospitalization. He discusses the decisive role of his wife and his psychiatrist in his recovery. He also talks about his career at Nice airport, his attachment to the city, his relationship with commemorations, and his view of courage, which he attributes to the ordinary gestures of everyday life. https://pileouface.media/en/episodes/camping-the-despised-film-that-became-a-cult-classic-fabien-onteniente-faces-den-ilka/https://pileouface.media/en/episodes/camping-the-despised-film-that-became-a-cult-classic-fabien-onteniente-faces-den-ilka/Wed, 01 Jul 2026 16:00:28 +0000Fabien Onteniente, director of Camping, Jet Set, Disco and Turf, presents his autobiography "Alors, on n'attend pas Fabien ?". He explains that the book was born out of his mother Alphonsine's move, at age 95, to a nursing home, and the discovery of family archives. He looks back on his first contact with cinema in the Paris suburbs, on meeting Franck Dubosc in a nightclub in Deauville, and on writing the film Camping, inspired by Michel Lang's L'Hotel de la plage. He discusses the class contempt his films have faced, the role of the audience versus the critics, and his unease with success and award ceremonies. He talks about his quiet, melancholic father, the notebooks of film courses discovered after his death, his relationship with Mathilde Seigner, his period of excess in Ibiza, and the call from Claude Berry that pulled him out of a rough patch. He describes an unrealized film project with Jean-Paul Belmondo, his ties to the Basque Country, and announces his next film, Rando, about hiking in the Cantal. https://pileouface.media/en/episodes/kad-merad-patrick-timsit-permis-de-detruire-eric-fraticelli-reveals-the-behind-t-5ciy/https://pileouface.media/en/episodes/kad-merad-patrick-timsit-permis-de-detruire-eric-fraticelli-reveals-the-behind-t-5ciy/Wed, 17 Jun 2026 16:00:25 +0000Denis Carreaux welcomes Éric Fraticelli on the occasion of the release of Permis de détruire. The guest explains the connection between this film and Permis de construire: Didier Bourdon's character is no longer there, replaced by Patrick Timsit's, accompanied by Kad Merad as a village psychiatrist. Fraticelli recounts how an improvised taxi scene about the film Gravity, shot with Kad Merad and Patrick Bosso, led Warner to offer him the chance to write Permis de construire and then to direct it. He discusses Philippe Corti and Jean-François Perrone, the behind-the-scenes of the shoot, the fits of laughter and the Afghan walk. The Pile ou Face segment covers what life has taken from him, his phobias of insects and feet, his vision of the future and his admiration for Louis de Funès and Bernard Blier. He looks back on his childhood in Lupino, his shyness, his doctorate in philosophy, his encounter with theater and the creation of his duo with Jacques Leparati. He talks about the clan, his daughter on screen, box-office records in Corsica and his show, including at the Olympia on January 7. https://pileouface.media/en/episodes/feminism-lawsuits-silence-giulia-fois-refuses-to-stay-quiet-hxjw/https://pileouface.media/en/episodes/feminism-lawsuits-silence-giulia-fois-refuses-to-stay-quiet-hxjw/Wed, 17 Jun 2026 16:00:11 +0000Denis Carreaux welcomes Giulia Foïs for the release of her first novel, Les Filles de la librairie, published by Flammarion. She explains her transition from journalism to fiction, evokes her father as a source of inspiration and the Nice bookshop Les Parleuses, run by Anou Aubert and Maude Pouillé, as the story's anchor. She reflects on Nice, a city she describes as contrasted, between the right wing and an old queer history. The novel, initially conceived as a series, was reworked into book format after two unsuccessful meetings with broadcasters. Giulia Foïs addresses the audiovisual industry's reluctance to deal with violence against women, cites the Luc Besson and Patrick Bruel cases as symptoms of a system that protects abusers, and criticizes the lack of resources allocated to fighting violence against women. She recounts the rape she suffered at 20, the acquittal that followed, and the writing of Je suis une sur deux as a step toward understanding, not catharsis. She speaks of her father's death, her fear of losing loved ones, and the joy she finds in feminist collective action.