Viewers of the hotly anticipated new documentary about convicted Theranos boss Elizabeth Holmes will be left with a host of questions.
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And not least among them is bound to be this: Why on earth did her partner, Billy Evans, the father of her two children, invite cameras into the most intimate corners of their family life just days before Holmes went to jail?
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Widely judged a cinematic tour de force, You Can See Everything has been described as a 'psychodrama circus' by Variety.
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Another leading critic dubbed it a 'stupefying and glorious destabilizing hall of psychological mirrors' from which no one emerges unscathed.
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Yet far from regretting an unfathomable decision, Evans defiantly insists he is happy with his choice.
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Think I'm an idiot.
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Watch it and make up your own mind,' he said in a stirring defense of his cooperation with director Nathan Fielder.
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'I know why I made the choices I made.
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Holmes, of course, is the Silicon Valley entrepreneur whose $9 billion blood-testing company, Theranos, collapsed amid revelations that its technology had never worked, inspiring the hit podcast Bad Blood and the Hulu series The Dropout starring Amanda Seyfried.
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Convicted of defrauding investors in 2022, Holmes was sentenced to more than 11 years in prison, and her spectacular downfall continues to grip America and the world beyond.
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Convicted of defrauding investors in 2022, Elizabeth Holmes was sentenced to more than 11 years in prison
The new documentary has people wondering why her partner Billy Evans invited cameras into the most intimate corners of their family life before Holmes started her prison term
Widely judged a cinematic tour de force, You Can See Everything has been described as a 'psychodrama circus' by Variety
Even the trailer for You Can See Everything has gone viral for its uncomfortable close-ups of her big, unblinking blue eyes.
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Now, in a rare interview, one of his first since news of the documentary became public, Evans has insisted that his motive for letting the cameras in was to help Holmes and to support a relationship about to undergo the most extraordinary ordeal.
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'Liz was about to disappear into federal prison for years,' he says.
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She'd spent years as a character other people created.
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I thought there should at least be an honest record of who she actually was at that moment.
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I knew an honest record might make me look bad sometimes.
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More than anything, I admire Liz for having the courage to be that vulnerable at the hardest moment of her life.'
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Today, Holmes, 42, is serving out her sentence – reduced by one year under the First Step act for non-violent, first-time offenders and eligible for early release for good conduct – at a minimum-security federal prison in Bryan, Texas, apart not just from Billy but from their children William, five, and Ivy, three.
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They believe that 'Mommy is at work.'
Lasting nearly three hours, the documentary follows the family in the run-up to her imprisonment in 2023, capturing a relationship which began right in the middle of her remarkable fall from grace.
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The choice of comedian and filmmaker Nathan Fielder, best known for creating socially awkward and satirical projects which blur the line between fact and fiction, has baffled many onlookers.
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Fielder and the filmmaker Lance Oppenheim have since described disagreements with Evans and a breakdown in communication.
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The trailer for the film has gone viral for its uncomfortable close-ups of Holmes' big, unblinking blue eyes
The choice of comedian and filmmaker Nathan Fielder, best known for creating socially awkward and satirical projects which blur the line between fact and fiction, has many baffled
Lasting nearly three hours, the movie follows the family in the run-up to Holmes' imprisonment in 2023
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Some viewers and commentators see Evans as controlling, but he says: 'If I wanted to control the story, I chose the worst filmmaker on Earth to give unlimited access to.
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We picked Nathan Fielder precisely because we couldn't control him.'
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Despite their public falling out, Evans, who has yet to see the documentary, goes so far as to praise the filmmakers, saying: 'I admire Nathan, Lance and [production company] A24 for taking the risk of making something this ambitious without knowing where the story would go.'
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Evans's relationship with Holmes has been the subject of intense public scrutiny since it first began.
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They met in October 2017, at a charity event in San Francisco.
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Theranos was already under investigation and Holmes's once-lauded career had imploded.
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Evans, whose family owns a successful hospitality business, says: 'I expected to be there for maybe five minutes.
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My friend introduced me to Liz.
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She was wearing a hat and sunglasses, so I didn't recognize her at first.
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But we ended up talking for hours.
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He had read newspaper reports about her and Theranos – and was confused to find himself rather taken with the person in front of him.
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'I don't know if it was love at first sight,' he says.
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'After our first conversation, I knew she was going to be important to me in some way.
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It is hard not to have concerns and questions when everything I read said one thing and then my personal experience with her was completely different.
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For six months they were friends, each dating other people.
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Eventually, he says, 'I realized that I wished the people I was dating were more like her.
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So I was saying to myself: "You idiot!
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won't you date her?"
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