This documentary features some truly incredible footage. The Krafft's story is as educational as it is emotional, and it is unbelievably compelling to watch people so passionate about their research.
Fire of Love
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Katia and Maurice Krafft loved two things: each other, and volcanoes. For two decades, the daring French volcanologist couple roamed the planet, chasing eruptions and their aftermath, documenting their discoveries in stunning photographs and breathtaking film that will forever enrich our knowledge of the natural world.
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Los Angeles Times by Justin Chang
The fire of Katia and Maurice Krafft’s obsession consumed them, in no small part, because it ultimately restored their kinship with humanity.
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RogerEbert.com by Matt Zoller Seitz
Fire of Love is one of a vanishingly rare breed of documentary that is determined to be "total cinema," not just capturing the facts of what happened to its subjects but creating an entire aesthetic—a vibe—around them.
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Slate by Sam Adams
Like the Maysles’ brothers documentaries about Christo and Jean-Claude, which followed the environmental artists and life partners over the course of several decades, Dosa’s movie makes the case that their private bond is inextricable from their public work, and it’s a toss-up as to which is the greater monument.
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Rolling Stone by David Fear
The doc is a capsule history lesson on an eons-old natural phenomenon. But it’s also the greatest lava-fueled love story ever told, and the fact that those two elements remain as inseparable as the spouses at the center of it all is a testament to how sublime this stranger-than-fiction masterpiece really is.
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San Francisco Chronicle by G. Allen Johnson
This is a film that pops on the big screen — no CGI needed here, folks. But the way Dosa shapes the story, emphasizing the couple’s deep love for each other and their unconventional lives, is what makes Fire of Love...one of the most moving and memorable films of 2022.
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The Atlantic by Shirley Li
It is one of the most moving and mesmerizing films of the year, a meditation on the wonders of nature and human curiosity.
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Uproxx by Mike Ryan
The footage, from the Krafft’s archives, is stunning. This truly is a remarkable film.
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TheWrap by William Bibbiani
Fire of Love is a wholly satisfying, overwhelming documentary, as disarming as it is explosive.
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The Playlist by Carlos Aguilar
The Krafft’s globetrotting love story exists at its most ardent in proximity of their mutual passion.
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IndieWire by Ryan Lattanzio
At an economical 90-minute running time, Fire of Love packs a visual and emotional wallop, with enough close-ups on erupting volcanoes — one, at a point, is called “a bathtub with a hole in it, sowing death all around” — to leave you slack-jawed, terrified, and awe-inspired.
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Entertainment Weekly by Joshua Rothkopf
The romance of the documentary emerges out of its deep, unfaked appreciation for nature: long, uninterrupted stretches where these self-described "weirdos" go off on their own to explore alien worlds like astronauts in their protective gear.
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Slashfilm by Ben Pearson
Fire of Love is a riveting portrait of a charismatic couple who lived life on the edge.
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Film Threat by Rob Rector
Dosa gives shape to the Kraffts’ relationship, not through traditional talking-head interviews, but rather by allowing audiences in on the couple’s subtle interactions with one another in their footage, allowing the story of their life together to be told predominantly by them.
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The Hollywood Reporter by Daniel Fienberg
Accompanied by a dreamy soundtrack and philosophically flowery narration by Miranda July, it’s a doomed love story on every level, a gorgeous collage of a film in which romance, scientific inquiry and death do a 93-minute dance.
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Time Out by Dave Calhoun
This film is about wonder, not balance, and it turns us delirious in the white heat of this pair’s chaotic, unflinching passion.
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Variety by Owen Gleiberman
Fire of Love, which has been directed by Sara Dosa with a discursive, let’s-try-it-on lyricism, is like one of Werner Herzog’s documentaries about fearless outliers, only this one is touched with romance.
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Screen Daily by Tim Grierson
The Seer And The Unseen director Sara Dosa has fashioned this documentary with modesty and sensitivity, in some ways as awed by the strange beauty and destructive power of the volcanos as she is by the nonchalant willingness of the Kraffts to put themselves at risk in the name of science.
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The Hollywood Reporter by Dan Fienberg
Accompanied by a dreamy soundtrack and philosophically flowery narration by Miranda July, it’s a doomed love story on every level, a gorgeous collage of a film in which romance, scientific inquiry and death do a 93-minute dance.
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The Film Stage by Jordan Raup
The documentary shows the Kraffts’ harmonious curiosity with nature––even its most cataclysmic forces––to make the world a safer place is a lesson anyone could benefit from.
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