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Fire of Love is a riveting portrait of a charismatic couple who lived life on the edge.
What are people saying?
What are critics saying?
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.
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.