Nathan Fielder’s Elizabeth Holmes documentary trailer reveals intimate confrontations
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A24 has released a full trailer for Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim’s documentary about Elizabeth Holmes, revealing more of its intimate and confrontational approach. It shows Fielder living alongside Holmes, making her cry and questioning her husband, as the film examines her behaviour before and after entering prison.
The 174-minute documentary begins 34 days before Holmes’s imprisonment and follows her over a three-year period. It premiered at Telluride to strong, often shocked reactions, with critics describing it as an increasingly strange and psychologically intense exploration of sincerity, deception and celebrity.
- A24’s new trailer reveals a more confrontational portrait of Elizabeth Holmes.
- Nathan Fielder lives with Holmes and questions those around her.
- Critics praised the documentary’s escalating strangeness and intensity.
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Distributor A24 has unveiled a full promotional trailer for 'You Can See Everything', an eagerly anticipated documentary examining the final month of freedom and early imprisonment of Elizabeth Holmes, the disgraced founder of the fraudulent blood-testing company Theranos. The 174-minute film, directed by Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim over a four-year production period, received its world premiere at the Telluride Film Festival before securing a theatrical release date of 16 October. The filmmakers previously released a brief teaser that generated substantial online interest.
The documentary captures Fielder residing alongside Holmes as she awaits incarceration, with the trailer revealing moments of emotional vulnerability from the subject, including a scene in which she expresses reluctance about allowing others to witness her crying. The fuller trailer provides expanded material compared to the initial teaser, showing Fielder's questioning approach as he probes Holmes about her conviction in her innocence and her claims about her intentions. Though Holmes presents herself as forthright with the camera crew, the sources reveal tension between her professions of honesty and Fielder's characteristically reserved interviewing manner.
Critics who viewed the work at festival screenings offered largely laudatory responses, though with strikingly different emphases. Variety's assessments highlighted the escalating strangeness and psychological intensity across the three-year timespan, with festival attendees circulating words such as 'wild' and bewildered reactions as they departed screenings. The Hollywood Reporter's analysis emphasised the film's two-part structure, describing how it transforms from intimate portraiture into increasingly surreal and meta-textual territory, particularly as it contends with Holmes' imprisonment rendering her unable to control her own narrative. Deadline's review suggested the work offers fresh material despite the subject having been examined through multiple prior documentaries, podcasts, books and television adaptations.
Holmes founded Theranos in 2003 on the premise that a proprietary device called The Edison could perform hundreds of diagnostic tests from a single finger-prick sample. The company secured investment valuing it at $9 billion at its height, though the technology fundamentally failed to function as promoted. The enterprise collapsed in 2018 following exposure of the deception, resulting in Holmes' conviction on fraud charges. She maintains her professed innocence in the documentary, which will debut at the New York Film Festival on 30 September prior to its general theatrical release.
Where outlets differ
Source 1 (Variety) emphasises critical reception and festival atmosphere, highlighting the psychological intensity and shock value; Source 2 (The Hollywood Reporter) emphasises the film's structural two-part design and meta-narrative aspects; Source 3 (Deadline) emphasises Fielder's interviewing methodology and notes the story's redundancy across multiple recent adaptations
Source 2 uniquely provides extensive background on Theranos' fraud and includes Holmes' partner Billy Evans; this context is absent from Sources 1 and 3
Source 3 explicitly mentions Fielder 'moving in' with Holmes, whilst Source 1 and 2 use more abstract language about documenting her life
The headline claims Fielder 'interrogates her husband', but no source explicitly describes such interrogation—Source 2 merely mentions Billy Evans as her partner
More coverage
- The Hollywood Reporter — Nathan Fielder’s Elizabeth Holmes Doc Drops Full Trailer — and You Will Want to See Everything
- Deadline — ‘You Can See Everything’ Full Trailer: Elizabeth Holmes Gets Vulnerable In A24 Film Ahead Of October 16 Release
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Originally published by Variety as “‘You Can See Everything’ Trailer: Nathan Fielder Lives With Elizabeth Holmes, Makes Her Cry and Interrogates Her Husband in Documentary”.