Fielder’s Holmes Documentary Blends Access and Reenactment

Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim’s documentary You Can See Everything follows Elizabeth Holmes and her family in the weeks before she reported to prison, then shifts into reenactments featuring Amanda Seyfried. The film, released in theaters on October 16, examines the tension between Holmes’s insistence on her innocence and the fraud conviction that sent her to prison, while also questioning how documentaries shape the stories they tell. Fielder, who co-directed the film with Oppenheim, lived with Holmes, her husband Billy Evans and their two children for 34 days before she reported to prison on May 30, 2023, according to Fielder’s account. Holmes was convicted in 2022 of fraud involving Theranos, the blood-testing company she founded. She continued to maintain her innocence during the period filmed, and the documentary presents conversations about her family life and the time before incarceration. The movie’s second half changes focus after Holmes goes to prison. Seyfried, who portrayed Holmes in the television series The Dropout, appears and takes part in dramatic reenactments based on conversations involving Holmes. The film uses reenactments for scenes the filmmakers...