200. This is the number of hours of hearings dissected by director Emma Cooper. On Saturday July 29, 2023, Netflix unveiled the trailer for its documentary mini-series titled Deppv. hearing and described as an investigation into the seven-week legal battle between ex-spouses who accused each other of domestic violence, as well as the excitement of social networks around it.
As is often the case in the United States, the entirety of this trial, which was held in the court of Fairfax, in the State of Virginia, was filmed and broadcast in a public manner. And carved into thousands of viral videos. Millions of Internet users followed it like a sensationalist reality show via social networks, “investigating”, commenting, spying or analyzing the behavior of the actress… So much so that Netflix dubbed it “the first trial of TikTok “.
Questioning the role of social networks
“The goal is to present a neutral overview of what happens when the court of public opinion begins to overshadow reality”, tease the streaming giant, quoted by LCI.
The documentary “will raise provocative and uncomfortable questions about how the discussions that took place outside the courtroom may have influenced the outcome,” the trailer description reads. He also promises to “present the two testimonies in parallel for the first time”.
This mini-series will be available from August 16 on the platform, and will include three episodes, the duration of which is not yet known.
The documentary Johnny Depp/Amber Heard case – Justice put to the test of social networks by journalist Cécile Delarue already deciphered precisely how masculinists organized a campaign of hatred and denigration against the American on social networks.
Reminder of the case Amber Heard and Johnny Depp
At the end of seven weeks of this ultra-publicized and ultra-followed trial, the jury delivered its verdict on June 1, 2022.
Amber Heard was ordered by the two female and five male jurors to pay the comedian $15million in damages for describing herself as a ‘public figure representing domestic abuse’ – she did not name her former husband – in a column she signed in December 2018 in the washington post.
In April 2020, the 30-year-old replied in a counter-demand to have been defamed by Adam Waldman, the former lawyer of her ex-spouse. The latter had described his accusations of domestic violence as a “set up” that same month. She had filed a complaint for defamation in turn, and the jurors also found Johnny Depp guilty, and sentenced him to pay two million dollars to Amber Heard.
After announcing that she was appealing the verdict, the actress now living in Spain with her daughter, said in a long statement posted on Instagram last December, that she had “made the difficult decision to conclude an agreement”, refraining from inflict trial for the third time.
This article first appeared on Marie Claire France.
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