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Fire of Love (2022)

Documentary | 93 minutes
3,36 81 votes

Genre: Documentary

Duration: 93 minuten

Country: Canada / United States

Directed by: Sara Dosa

Stars: Miranda July, Katia Krafft and Maurice Krafft

IMDb score: 7,6 (16.361)

Releasedate: 6 July 2022

Fire of Love plot

"The greatest lava-fueled love story ever told."

Katia and Maurice: two volcanologists, passionate about their science and their love for each other. The French mediagenic couple is taking huge risks in their quest to better understand volcanic eruptions while providing hundreds of hours of footage. Director Sara Dosa restored the images recorded on pellicule to their original unearthly beauty.

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De filosoof

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I didn't quite understand why the reviewers are so positive about this documentary and after seeing it still don't. It is what you would expect: two volcanologists found each other in the 1960s in their endless passion for volcanoes and then live exclusively for approaching and filming volcanoes together, especially when they erupt to death, on the basis of of the adage that volcanology is a science of observation and that you see more when you are close to it and that if you have been so close to it you have already experienced so much magnificent that it is no longer a problem to die once to go through such an outburst. Fortunately, the documentary does not focus strongly on their relationship, but you actually learn little about volcanoes: it is another documentary that I think mainly wants to convey the sublime experience they experienced at a volcano or even their passion as such (but I prefer a documentary that tells a story rather than trying to convey those experiences). We learn that they made documentaries about volcanoes all the time and I think I would find it a lot more interesting and informative than this documentary about these two documentary makers, which is a bit too meta and hardly informative for me.

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mrklm

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Katia and Maurice Krafft shared a passion for volcanoes and during the 25 years they were together they devoted themselves to observing volcanoes around the world. Katia was a geochemist who searched for connections, Maurice a geologist with an appetite for adventure who hoped to one day be able to sail down a lava river in a special boat. This documentary consists of a modest selection of the hundreds of hours of footage (videos and photos) that Katia and Howard used for the films, books and lectures. Miranda July's commentary attempts to outline what drove these two individuals, what the dynamics were like between them, how the relationship developed and what lessons we can now learn from the fieldwork of these pioneering French volcanologists. The images are beautiful and often impressive, but it is still a bit much of the same. However, the message that nature is ultimately much stronger than humans is more relevant than ever.

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james_cameron

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Beautiful documentary, made entirely of archive material and home movies, about volcanologists Katia and Maurice Krafft, who lost their lives in the 1991 eruption of Mount Unzen in Japan. The French couple takes great risks in their quest for better knowledge about volcanic eruptions and in the meantime provides hundreds of hours of spectacular film footage. The unusual, slightly pretentious voice-over by actress/director Miranda July fits well with the often fascinating visual material.

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