Overview
- The film You Can See Everything opened in North America to about $15 million on its opening weekend, marking the strongest debut for a documentary in the region since Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 9/11.
- Directors Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim filmed Holmes for 34 days after she invited them into a rented Del Mar house, giving the film unusually intimate access to the founder in the days before she began serving her sentence.
- Early response has been overwhelmingly positive, with Rotten Tomatoes near 99 percent approval, audience scores at about 98 percent, Letterboxd at 4.8 out of 5, and many sold-out screenings reported.
- Elizabeth Holmes was convicted of investor fraud in November 2022, was sentenced to more than eleven years with an appeals court later reducing the term by two years, entered prison in 2023, and is scheduled for release at the end of February 2030 according to the U.S. Bureau of Prisons.
- The film’s surprise festival debut and strong box office have fueled talk that a documentary could compete in major awards categories and have renewed debate over the ethics of close access to a convicted subject; a German release date has not been announced.