The New York Film Festival has a late addition to its lineup, setting Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim’s Elizabeth Holmes documentary You Can See Everything to the Spotlight section for a NY debut after its buzzy sneak premiere at Telluride.
Holmes, founder of biotech startup Theranos and inventor of a purported miracle medical blood screening device was convicted of fraud has been the subject of a parade of documentaries, dramatizations and exposés. But this film, as per Deadline’s review (and others), is like no other you have ever seen.”
Fielder and Oppenheim created it in secret over the past four years from footage of Holmes and her romantic partner, who invited them into their home to live with them and record their lives 34 days before her incarceration. The couple profess her innocence.
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“Is this all an elaborate ruse? Or is something even stranger afoot? Fielder and Oppenheim have created a fascinating portrait of a relationship, decimating notions of objectivity in documentary while also interrogating the limits of fiction. This blistering, head-spinning—and frequently hilarious—high-wire act of self-reflexivity keeps changing shape and uncovering surprises as it swerves headlong into the unknowable,” says the fest of the A24 release.
NYFF runs Sept. 25-Oct 12.
