‘You Can See Everything’ Review: Shocking Elizabeth Holmes Documentary With Nathan Fielder Is Like No Other You Have Ever Seen – Telluride Film Festival — SkimNews
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- A24's documentary 'You Can See Everything' world-premiered at Telluride Film Festival as a top-secret screening with phones bagged at the door, running 174 minutes and co-directed by Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim.
- Elizabeth Holmes granted Fielder full access to her San Diego home with boyfriend Billy Evans just 36 days before reporting to a Bryan, Texas prison to serve her 2022 sentence of 11 years for defrauding Theranos investors including Larry Ellison and Rupert Murdoch.
- Fielder's crew shot the film beginning in 2023 in total secrecy, miking up Holmes and Evans for 12 hours a day and capturing unguarded moments including Evans showering on camera.
- Holmes maintains her innocence throughout, insisting Theranos was legitimate — Fielder even pulls up the Emmy-winning Hulu series 'The Dropout' on his laptop and asks her whether any of it happened.
- The film follows Holmes into prison then jumps two years later for what the reviewer calls a 'crowd-pleasing' second act built around Evans, whom the reviewer suggests may be 'the batshit crazy one.'
- A24 gave the filmmakers unusually free rein, telling them if the project didn't work out they could 'toss it in the garbage can'; the film is scheduled for an October 2026 release.
Why it matters: Holmes used the documentary as an unfiltered platform to maintain her innocence before a filmmaker she came to trust — and Fielder himself said at the Telluride Q&A, 'I don't know why they wanted me there.' With A24 scheduling the film for October 2026, the public verdict on whether Holmes is sincere or performing is still ahead, even after an Emmy-winning limited series and multiple prior documentaries.
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