360. Fire Of Love; movie review

 

FIRE OF LOVE

Cert PG

93 mins

BBFC advice: Contains mild injury detail, threat

What in our DNA makes some people run towards fear and some run away from it?

I could not comprehend the death-defying guts of Katia and Maurice Krafft, the world's foremost volcanologists.

Together they broke boundaries in understanding when these great monsters would blow and have saved tens of thousands of lives.

But their endeavours cost their own.

Sara Dosa's excellent Fire Of Love documents the couple's extraordinary lives which appear to have been permanently on the edge of volcanos.

There are some incredible images of them literally yards away from fast-flowing larvae.

The Kraffts were at the scene of almost every major volcanic eruption in the 1980s to increase understanding of when human life could be in its greatest danger.

But they outline the frustration that governments would not always accept their analysis, causing lives to be lost unnecessarily to natural disasters.

Fire Of Love is an epitaph to a unique couple.

They don't explain why they were such volcano nerds but they do say that they could not have been together with a partner who wasn't.

They lived together and they died together. It is a remarkable story, tightly told.

Reasons to watch: Incredible images

Reasons to avoid: Upsetting finale

Laughs: None

Jumps: None

Vomit: None 

Nudity: None

Overall rating: 8.5/10

Did you know? There are more than 1500 active volcanoes on Earth. Around 50–70 volcanoes erupt every year. There are 82 volcanoes in Europe and 32 of these are in Iceland, one of the UK’s closest ‘volcanic neighbours’.

The final word. Sara Dosa: "There are so many things I dream of asking Katia and Maurice, and this is something that my entire team talked about constantly. We felt like we had such an unrequitedness about our own love of them." Sundance

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