Criticism of ‘Fire Of Love’: the volcano of love

Although it is a documentary film, ‘Fire of Love’ unfolds like many romantic dramas. The love story that the couple formed by the geologist Maurice Krafft and the chemist Katia Krafft had with the volcanoes begins with a first youthful outburst, is accentuated when the shared passion unites them both, goes through the first disappointments and a reevaluation of their link, before reaching the fatal outcome. Although the dangerous attraction of the protagonists for the destructive power of the volcanoes has a lot of ‘Herzogian’‘Fire of Love’ tells the story of the Kraffts from a more tender and self-aware perspective, to which Miranda July’s voiceover, the use of animations and the couple’s ability to convey to a profane audience their geological passion.

Made up largely of the material they filmed on their trips to active volcanoes, Fire of Love is also a splendid vindication of the quality of amateur scientific cinema when it comes to recording nature at the zenith of its spectacularity.

To burn with love with the scientific passion of the Kraffts for volcanoes

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Address: Sarah Dosa Country: USA Year: 2022 Release date: 08-26-2022 Gender: Documentary film Script: Shane Boris, Erin Casper, Jocelyne Chaput, Sara Dosa Duration: 93 min.

Synopsis: Katia was a geochemist and Maurice a geologist. Etna and Stromboli, their references. Together they shared an exciting life, a volcanic and playful love lived to the limit. In the 1970s they began a joint search that would last two decades and would take them around the world to study the eruption of volcanoes. Zaire, Hawaii, Indonesia, United States, Japan…Maurice filmed in 16mm and Katia took photos of the craters on foot. Similar images had never been seen.