This Wednesday, the streaming platform Netflix unveiled its documentary on the Blues fiasco in South Africa in Knysna. A documentary which has already caused a lot of ink to flow, notably with the publication of several passages from Raymond Domenech’s diary. Since then, the former coach of the Blues has come out of silence to criticize Netflix and the documentary denouncing “hateful trash” and a “a rape of his soul” and calling the film “extremely violent indictment against (s) a person”,“totally incriminating and nauseatingly biased”. The 74-year-old ex-coach also explained that Netflix would have promised him a right of review before publication, which he never had.
This Thursday, with AFP, Netflix wanted to respond to Raymond Domenech explaining that the documentary was not “neither an indictment, nor a platform, and that it had been produced in a logic of comparing stories”. “We do not pay speakers for their participation. We had real editorial freedom, we never allowed them to see the images before release. We were very clear with all the stakeholders on this point. Afterwards, we of course had to discuss archival purchases… Domenech received royalties, but more on his book than on his diary”confirmed Stephen Kamga, producer of the documentary, explaining that it took many months to convince Domenech to participate.
