The Most Moving Film of the Year Is a Documentary About Volcanoes
<em>Fire of Love</em> isn’t your typical nature film; it’s also a tragic love story.
Fire of Love, a documentary about two volcanologists, begins on a tundra. They’re en route to yet another volcano but there’s no boiling lava in sight, no steaming geysers—just mounds of icy slush and wind-sculpted snowdrifts making the trek as challenging as possible.
Yet that’s the charm of : Even without a volcano onscreen, the boldness of the two tiny humans at its center is striking enough. The film, ,follows Maurice and Katia Krafft, a married French couple who spent the 1970s and ’80s studying, as offers a bonanza of stunning images and fascinating insight into the workings of volcanoes, tracing how the Kraffts gathered their findings through meticulous research and hands-on analysis.
