OCS: programs not to be missed in January 2022

On OCS, January 2022 will be moving or not. In any case, that’s all we hope for from the great return ofEuphoria, the excellent series of Sam Levinson which returns after 2 years and a half of absence and a special double episode last year. The documentary The Scars of Ali Boulala, which tells the tragic fate of a fallen skateboard icon, should also heat up the tissue box. And what about The Impossible, which looks back on the terrible tsunami which wiped out hundreds of thousands of lives in a few hours in 2004 on the shores of the Indian Ocean.

To counterbalance this latent melancholy, OCS offers us, as often, rather heterogeneous programs. French schoolboy comedy with Yves, efficient SF with Source Code, from the horrific anime with Beauty Water, a cycle dedicated to the filmmaker Éric Rohmer or even, in the middle of all this, a little gem by Paul Thomas Anderson, Phantom Thread.

The event of the month: Euphoria, season 2, from January 10

After a special double episode aired in early 2021 to keep fans waiting, Euphoria is finally back. The critically and publicly acclaimed Sam Levinson series was eagerly awaited after its first season aired in June 2019 (already) on HBO. We will therefore very soon find Rue Bennett, always embodied by a Zendaya more incandescent than ever, her friends, her lovers and her devastating addictions. The first images of this second season remind us why the first had so marked the spirits, thanks in particular to an artistic direction always so controlled, between dreamlike and sometimes very raw reality.

We are curious: The Scars of Ali Boulala, January 9

Unless you’re a true skateboarder, you’ve probably never heard of Ali Boulala. This documentary, which paints his tragic destiny, nevertheless promises to be fascinating from start to finish. The story of a cool kid of world skateboarding passed in a few years from the suburbs of Stockholm to the most hype from California. A narcissistic and punk character, whose fall will be as violent as his rise was meteoric. After a motorcycle accident which claimed the life of one of his comrades, Boulala spent four months in a coma and two years in prison for manslaughter. The documentary falls into two parts, the second focusing on living the former glory of skateboarding after that drama, and the aftermath that never really goes away.

We will (re) see with fear: The Impossible, at the end of January

In December 2004, a terrible tsunami ravaged the coasts of several countries bordering the Indian Ocean. At least 250,000 people are missing in what is still today one of the most traumatic natural disasters in history. At human height, Juan Antonio Bayona tells the story of a family of Western tourists surprised by the giant wave, and their quest to find each other. As violent as it is overwhelming, the film is not to be seen in front of everyone. But it is a superb testimony to this terrible episode that humanity will not soon forget. At the top of the bill, Naomi Watts and Ewen McGregor are perfect, as is the very young and still unknown Tom Holland, long before joining the Marvel stable as a certain spider.

And besides that ?

• Guest of Honor, Canadian drama – January 1
• Phantom Thread, drama by Paul Thomas Anderson – January 2
• In the silence of the west, western – January 4
• The World to Come, feminist western – January 5
• Breeder, horror thriller – January 6
• Source Code, action / SF with Jake Gyllenhaal – January 7
• The Pagan King, historical drama – January 7
• Vampires in complete privacy, cult New Zealand comedy – January 7
• Cyril vs. Goliath, documentary – January 8
• The Righteous Gemstones, season 2 – from January 10
• Girl, Belgian drama – January 12
• Gaia, South African fantasy drama – January 13
• I am not your negro, documentary – January 16
• Loving, biopic by Jeff Nichols – January 16
• Albert to the west, parody western – January 16
• Somebody somewhere, season 1 – from January 17
• Good boys, American comedy – January 17
• Russian Raid, Russian action – January 18
• The Super Deep, Russian horror thriller – January 19
• Fly Me, French comedy – January 19
• Burden, biopic of an ex child of the Ku Klux Klan – January 20
• Anything for Jackson, horror movie – January 20
• The Line of Fire, Russian action – January 21
• Cyst, horror movie – January 21
• Mr. and Mrs. Adelman, comedy-drama by Nicolas Bedos – January 22
• The Gilded Age, season 1 – from January 25
• Yves, comedy and smart fridge – January 26
• French Exit, drama with Michelle Pfeiffer – January 26
• Beauty Water, animated horror thriller – January 27
• Great minds, French comedy drama – January 27
• Psycho Goreman, horror comedy – January 28
• Sammy by Sammy – My 60s, documentary on Sammy Davis Jr. – January 30
• The unfaithful, comedy with Jean Dujardin and Gilles Lellouche – during January
• Trainees, comedy with Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn – during January
• The law of the jungle, comedy with Vincent Macaigne and Vimala Pons – during January
• Steak, comedy by Quentin Dupieux – during January

Eric Rohmer cycle

• The collector – January 7
• Suzanne’s career – January 7
• My night at Maude’s – January 14
• The baker of Monceau – January 14
• Claire’s knee – January the 21st
• Love, the afternoon – January 28