No longer a secret, \u201cYou Can See Everything,\u201d Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim’s Elizabeth Holmes documentary, premiered Wednesday at the New York Film Festival. <\/p>\n
Since first debuting in a surprise, no-phones screening at the Telluride Film Festival on Sept. 6, \u201cYou Can See Everything\u201d immediately transformed into one of the year’s most buzzed-about films. <\/p>\n
Shot secretly over three years, the nearly three-hour documentary captures Holmes, founder of the medical testing company Theranos, in the 34 days before reporting to prison. But as fans of Fielder would expect, little in how \u201cYou Can See Everything\u201d follows a conventional route. <\/p>\n
Moviegoers lined up outside the Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center as early as 3 a.m. in hopes of attending the sold-out 8 p.m. screening. <\/p>\n
\u201cYou Can See Everything,\u201d which A24 will release Oct. 16, is a hard-to-believe coda to a preposterous saga. Even Fielder isn\u2019t sure what to make of the surreal odyssey he and Oppenheim captured.<\/p>\n
\u201cI am still struggling to this day to understand what I went through,\u201d Fielder said in a Q&A following the screening. <\/p>\n
After her conviction on four felony counts of fraud and conspiracy, Holmes entered a Texas prison in May 2023. In a headline-grabbing scandal that rocked Silicon Valley, one of the most surprising and surreal twists was revealed only this month.<\/p>\n
Holmes chose to let Fielder, the absurdist comedian of \u201cNathan For You\u201d and \u201cThe Rehearsal,\u201d and the documentary filmmaker Oppenheim, intimately film her life with her partner, the California hotel heir Billy Evans, and their two children. <\/p>\n
At this dramatic moment in their lives, Fielder lived in a guest house at their Del Mar, California, beachside home. The filmmakers shot from morning to night. Fielder interviews the couple while in bed, or the bathroom. <\/p>\n
\u201cI mean, I cannot tell you how weird it was that we were there,\u201d Fielder said. \u201cI wouldn’t think I’d be, like, the person that you would want for your final 34 days of freedom. I’m not the most, like, comforting.\u201d <\/p>\n
The filmmakers happened to hear that Holmes and Evans had reached out to A24 about the prospect of making a documentary. Fielder didn’t initially think it would amount to a feature film, but he was curious just to meet Holmes. <\/p>\n
\u201cWhen I met her, I remember having this weird experience,\u201d Fielder explained. \u201cShe seems so genuine at times but then I’m like, (expletive), tracking my thoughts and being like, \u2018I know she\u2019s a liar.’\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cEvery person who worked on this movie was going through a similar cognitive dissonance,\u201d said Oppenheim, who directed the just-released \u201cPrimetime,\u201d starring Robert Pattinson as \u201cTo Catch a Predator\u201d host Chris Hansen. \u201cWe would unpack the day’s events and no one could agree on seemingly mundane moments that would transpire.\u201d <\/p>\n
In \u201cYou Can See Everything,\u201d Fielder seeks not only to grasp what is true and not true about Holmes, but to grapple with deeper questions of identity, performance, fiction and control. <\/p>\n
Holmes founded Theranos with her then-romantic partner Ramesh \u201cSunny\u201d Balwani. They promised the company would revolutionize healthcare with a technology that could quickly scan for diseases and other health problems with a few drops of blood taken with a finger prick. <\/p>\n
The hype helped them raise nearly $1 billion from investors. By 2014, Theranos was valued at $4.5 billion. <\/p>\n
But after the company’s purported technology advances were exposed in a series of explosive articles in The Wall Street Journal, the company collapsed. In 2018, the U.S. Justice Department charged Holmes and Balwani with a litany of white-collar crimes. <\/p>\n
Balwani was separately convicted in 12 felony counts of fraud and conspiracy and sentenced to nearly 13 years in a Southern California prison.<\/p>\n
The filmmakers more than once asked the Alice Tully Hall crowd to preserve the surprise twists and turns the movie takes as it shifts. That includes dramatic recreations with the aid of an A-list star and other elaborations, all in an effort to get closer to the truth.<\/p>\n
But even as Fielder and Oppenheimer pleaded for viewers not to discuss the film in too much detail, they were clearly eager to debate and try to make sense of \u201cYou Can See Everything.\u201d <\/p>\n
\u201cAs each scene that happens, it’s happening and we’re documenting it. There’s no plan of what’s going to happen next at any point,\u201d Fielder said. \u201cThis is a path that opened up to us and we just followed it.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"No longer a secret, \u201cYou Can See Everything,\u201d Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim’s Elizabeth Holmes documentary, premiered Wednesday…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":789319,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[112282,96,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-789318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-elizabeth-holmes","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=789318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789318\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/789319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=789318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=789318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=789318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}