Nathan Fielder Moved In With Elizabeth Holmes for 174-Minute Documentary
Elizabeth Holmes asked Nathan Fielder to live with her.
The Theranos founder and her husband Billy Evans sought out Fielder to make You Can See Everything, according to Variety. The documentary is scheduled for theatrical release, meaning cinemas, on October 16, according to A24.
Fielder co-directed the film with Lance Oppenheim, Variety reported. It runs 174 minutes. That is two hours and 54 minutes.
Fielder spent 34 days living with Holmes and Evans, then production continued for years beyond Holmes's incarceration, Variety reported. The trailer sets out the premise: Fielder moves in to document her life for a month before she went to prison, as reported by Deadline. The month-long stay forms the starting point for a much longer shoot.
A24 is the studio releasing the film. The studio laid groundwork in September, with a Facebook post about the documentary followed by a trailer on YouTube ahead of the October date. A24 has asked audiences to treat one detail as a spoiler: the appearance of a Very Famous A-List Personality, Variety reported. The studio has not named that person in its public materials.
The film surfaced at the Telluride Film Festival, where Deadline published its review. Variety described it as a hangout-movie portrait of the Theranos fraudster, a film built around spending time together. Deadline called it a shocking Elizabeth Holmes documentary with Nathan Fielder.
Those notices arrived in early September, with further comment following into October. IndieWire gave the film a grade of A, its top mark on an A-to-F scale. The Guardian described it as a modern masterpiece of deceit. The Hollywood Reporter reported that the documentary about the Theranos chief could be an Oscar contender in several categories, the awards voted by the film academy.
What makes this stand out is the shift in feeling. Variety described the movie as having some sympathy for Holmes, suggesting empathy may be possible. For viewers who know the case only as a fraud story, that points to a home-life account told in the weeks before prison.
