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A24 Drops Full Trailer for Fielder and Oppenheim's Elizabeth Holmes Doc

A24 has released the full trailer for You Can See Everything, Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim's secret four-year Elizabeth Holmes documentary, opening October 16 after its NYFF stop.

Full Trailer for Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim’s You Can See Everything Arrives as Tickets Go on Sale
Full Trailer for Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim’s You Can See Everything Arrives as Tickets Go on Salejurvetson / Openverse

A24 has released the first full trailer for You Can See Everything, the Elizabeth Holmes documentary directed by Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim, as select screenings go on sale ahead of an October 16 theatrical release.

The film premiered in secret at Telluride and screens next at the 64th New York Film Festival. A24 has already put select screenings on sale, with nationwide tickets available beginning October 1.

The project was created in secret over the past four years. Fielder, known for The Rehearsal and The Curse (both shown at NYFF61), directed alongside Lance Oppenheim, whose credits include Primetime.

The New York Film Festival synopsis lays out the film's premise: Holmes, convicted of fraud and sentenced to prison over her company Theranos and its purported "miracle" medical device, "has been the face of Silicon Valley hucksterism" in "a seemingly endless parade of documentaries, dramatizations, and exposés." In this film, however, "Holmes becomes an entirely different kind of camera subject."

According to NYFF, Holmes and her romantic partner, William "Billy" Evans, invited Fielder into their home to live with them and begin recording their lives just 34 days before her incarceration. The pair "profess her innocence on their own, intimate terms."

The synopsis poses the questions at the film's center: "Is this all an elaborate ruse? Or is something even stranger afoot?"

NYFF describes the result as "a fascinating portrait of a relationship, decimating notions of objectivity in documentary while also interrogating the limits of fiction." The festival calls it "this blistering, head-spinning—and frequently hilarious—high-wire act of self-reflexivity" that "keeps changing shape and uncovering surprises as it swerves headlong into the unknowable."

The film marks Fielder's first documentary feature since his HBO series The Rehearsal, which built elaborate rehearsals of real-life situations, and continues his career-long interrogation of performance, authenticity and control on camera. It also extends Oppenheim's work probing American subcultures and institutional power.

For Holmes, the film represents an unusual act of self-presentation by a figure who has already been the subject of extensive scripted and unscripted treatment, including Hulu's The Dropout. Rather than submit to a third-party narrative, she and Evans handed a camera crew access to their domestic life at the most consequential moment of her legal saga.

Whether audiences read the film as confession, performance or something in between, its October 16 release will test how far a documentary can blur the line between the two — with A24 betting that a theater full of viewers wants to find out.

Original: app.a24films.com

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