Truth or Consequences

Keep an eye out for Hannah Jayanti, she's honing a very special voice in boundary-pushing documentary, and I think she will make a great narrative feature with the right funding Last ten minutes were my favorite sequence of any 2020 release

Caroline

A lyrical work of documentary science fiction, Hannah Jayanti’s Truth or Consequences is a revealing reflection on humanity’s ambitions and stasis. Applying a bold fictional premise, the film is a thrilling formal adventure that never loses sight of the tenderness with…

MUBI USA

In the state of New Mexico in the southwestern USA, there is a city called Truth or Consequences with a small mixed population. The town adopted the name of a popular NBC Radio quiz show Truth or Consequences. This town is not affluent and has a significant portion of the…

Ashwani Kumar

52 films by women 2022: 26/52. The New Mexico town of Truth or Consequences used to be known as Hot Springs before it changed its name to win a competition launched by a radio show of that title. This history - of capitalism and commercialism at its most ridiculous, of…

Graham Williamson

Best new movie I’ve seen in a while. Really captures so much of what it feels like to be alive on this planet right now. I completely disagree with the reviews that disliked the science-fiction elements/framing. Like some of the best Herzog docs, it really added a layer of…

patrick

The story behind Truth or Consequences is that the characters depicted are the people left behind when mankind left for other planets, but the real story is that these are the people left behind, period. Hannah Jayanti’s film uses actual documentary footage of some of…

Alan Boon

A portrait of a bunch of people who seem stranded in the desert town in New Mexico that they live in. Some of them are eccentric, some of them are somewhat desperate, some of them are just there. The film reminded me of the earlier documentaries by Werner Herzog or Errol…

Christof

"i gotta live in the now, child"

erika kokay

Ashes to ashes, dust to dust... Everything that has life will one day come to an end. I was emotionally unprepared for this moving film. I randomly chose it on Mubi without reading anything about it. It's a gut-kicker. I was in tears at the end when Sharon Van Etten's…

Cindy T