Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim’s secretive 174-minute documentary, You Can See Everything, is slated for an October 16 theatrical release following a surprise world premiere at the Telluride Film Festival. Distributed by A24, the film captures disgraced Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes in her final weeks of freedom.
The Trailer and Release Timeline for You Can See Everything
A24 released the full-length trailer for You Can See Everything on Wednesday, giving audiences a wider look at the unusual project created in secret over a four-year span. The film follows disgraced Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes in her final days of freedom and her first weeks of imprisonment. Following a surprise world premiere at the Telluride Film Festival, the project joined the New York Film Festival Spotlight Lineup for a September 30 debut ahead of its commercial theatrical launch on October 16.
The documentary provides the convicted fraudster a platform to share her side of the Theranos narrative alongside partner Billy Evans before she began serving an 11-year prison sentence. Holmes continuously professed her innocence throughout the project. The company she founded in 2003 eventually reached a $9 billion valuation on the premise of running hundreds of health and medical tests using a single drop of blood from a finger prick. That enterprise dissolved in 2018 after proprietary testing machines like The Edison failed to deliver on those claims.
Inside the Three-Year Psychodrama and Festival Reaction
Running 174 minutes, the film documents Holmes inviting a skeptical film crew to document her every move thirty-four days before she is sent to prison.
“Thirty-four days before she’s sent to prison, notorious Silicon Valley founder Elizabeth Holmes invites a skeptical film crew to document her every move. What begins as an intimate portrait of an enigmatic felon becomes a mind-bending three-year journey into the abyss.”
Official logline, via Variety
Variety film critic Owen Gleiberman characterized the movie as a one-of-a-kind reality-TV-as-hangout-movie psychodrama circus
driven by Fielder’s deadpan interview style. Meanwhile, Clayton Davis noted that the feature keeps escalating in strangeness across its three-year span and lands a final movement that had Telluride’s most seasoned attendees walking out shell-shocked.
Words like wild and WTF circulated heavily among festivalgoers.
A Shift in Narrative Control Behind Bars
The documentary is structured in two distinct parts, shifting tone dramatically as it follows its subject into confinement. The Hollywood Reporter critic Angie Han wrote that the feature evolves from an intimate portrait into something much wilder and less predictable, ultimately confronting the reality of Holmes’ imprisonment.
As TechCrunch notes, the collaboration brings together Fielder’s uncanny ability to inhabit awkward situations with a subject who still disputes her culpability. In the teaser footage, Holmes stares intensely into Fielder’s eyes and defends her candor.
“I don’t have anything to deceive you on. Of course I’m not deceiving you. I’m engaging with you as a human being. Why would I deceive you? There’s no reason for me to do that.”
Elizabeth Holmes, via Variety
Because Holmes is now incarcerated and unable to speak for herself in any depth, control of her public narrative has slipped back outside her hands. The resulting void in the film’s later movements is filled by other means as the project confronts her absence head-on.
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