Synopsis
Director: Sara Dosa
Producers: Shane Boris, Sara Dosa, Ina Fichman
93 min. US/Canada. 2022
Fire of Love tells the extraordinary story of Katia and Maurice Krafft, two eccentric French scientists who chased down active volcanoes around the world until the day they finally succumbed to the thing they loved the most. With gorgeous cinematic images captured by the Kraffts—of explosive eruptions, fiery red lava flows, and their own amusing geological-inspired home-movies—filmmaker Sara Dosa weaves together a quirky, profound, and entrancing tale about one couple’s passion for each other, and for a planet whose overwhelming power demands our deepest attention and respect. Poetically narrated by Miranda July, Fire of Love is a “crowd-pleasing” (Harper’s Bazaar), “breathtaking” (Vox), “heartwarming” (RogerEbert.com), and “gorgeously photographed, dreamily constructed” (The Hollywood Reporter) ode to devotion in all its forms.