Illustration by Kristian Hammerstad

Lance Oppenheim is suddenly a director to be reckoned with. Still only 30, he has made a series of innovative and acclaimed documentaries, from an early short about a long-term cruise passenger, The Happiest Guy in the World , to Some Kind of Heaven , about the world’s largest retirement community in Florida, and Spermworld , about unregulated sperm donors and their recipients.

But his fame has exploded with the release of You Can See Everything in the US. This three-hour documentary about the Theranos fraudster Elizabeth Holmes and her partner Billy Evans has had rave reviews and the biggest opening for a documentary since Fahrenheit 9/11 in 2004. It presents the impenitent Holmes in the weeks before she went to prison and then continues the story two years later, recruiting Amanda Seyfried, who played her on TV, for a series of re-enactments.…