You Can See Everything (Rated M. 174 minutes.)

Thirty-four days before the disgraced Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes was due in federal prison to serve an 11-year sentence for conspiracy and fraud, she and her partner, Billy Evans, welcomed a film crew into their beachside cottage.

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The idea, Holmes and Evans said, was to help the public understand who Holmes really is. The narrative was incorrect.

The journalists and the television shows, like the mini-series The Dropout, had got her wrong.

And so, in one of the many mysteries of this fascinating project, they chose Nathan Fielder, a comedian known for blurring fiction and reality in absurdist shows like Nathan for You and The Rehearsal, to come into their rented home in Del Mar, California, and document their life with their two young children in her final days before prison.

They even invited Fielder to stay with them - an offer that he declines at first but later accepts, about 20 days in.

The resulting film, You Can See Everything, defies categorisation.

In some ways, it is a staggering piece of performance art by everyone involved. It's also wildly entertaining, confounding and wholly unique.

I'm not even sure an interest in Holmes is any sort of prerequisite for enjoyment. Besides, even after this nearly three-hour exercise, which somehow flies by, she remains as enigmatic as ever.

Fielder shares directing credits with Lance Oppenheim, who also directed the recent Robert Pattinson-as-Chris Hansen drama Primetime.

As in Fielder's aforementioned television shows, he is as much a character in You Can See Everything as his subjects.

At the beginning, he's even shot somewhat ominously, a voyeuristic creeper lurking in the corners or in the distance with his headphones and portable monitor almost always affixed to his........

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