Fire of Love
(2022)Country | |
Spoken Language | english, french, portuguese, tagalog, spanish |
Runtime | 1 hr 38 min |
Premiere: World | $1 695 072 March 26, 2022 |
USA | $1 120 412 |
Other countries | $574 660 |
Premiere: USA | $1 120 412 March 31, 2022 |
first day | $6926 |
first weekend | $22 416 |
theaters | 191 |
rollout | 544 days |
Digital: World | November 11, 2022 |
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Intrepid scientists and lovers Katia and Maurice Krafft died in a volcanic explosion doing the very thing that brought them together: unraveling the mysteries of volcanoes by capturing the most explosive imagery ever recorded.Сast and Crew
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Critique: 43
The doc is a capsule history lesson on an eons-old natural phenomenon. But it’s also the greatest lava-fueled love story ever told.
Without ever slipping into sentimentalism, The Worst Person in the World understands the warts-and-all beauty of what it means to truly live a...
"After Yang" probes issues of memory, consciousness, grieving, and more with a gentleness and subtle visual imagination that is captivating.
… This film looks for something romantic, celebrating or consecrating the myth of the Kraffts: they loved each other, they loved volcanoes and it a...
Navalny is fearless, charismatic and an agent of history. Roher’s timely doc puts us right there with him.
A portrait of two people who were equally and obsessively single-minded in their life’s pursuit… that is the heart of Fire of Love.
The final act comes with perhaps too many surprises on the menu, but the film is so much fun that I didn’t mind the extra courses.
They don’t make espionage pictures like they used to. Then again, here’s Navalny, which could easily pass for a Costa-Gavras polit...
Panah Panahi’s debut feature is remarkably assured—tender, funny, artfully shot, and wise.
A story of love and discovery told with curiosity and care, Dosa honours her unique subjects – lending tenderness and poetry to the archive fo...
Pettingill’s beguiling assemblage of news footage … is especially generous for fellow research nerds who love rabbit holes and quirky intermi...
Dosa’s film is a slick, moving and cutely Herzogian portrait of this loving, monomaniacal couple who straddled the line between the eccentric...
A story of romance, between two people, and between the couple and the beautiful and terrible power of nature.
"…archival footage is exciting enough, but editors…make judicious use of split-screen, circular stencils and other visual effects, varying the rhyt...
Downfall: The Case Against Boeing is an exceptionally strong expose, one with a clear thesis, a powerful, direct argument to make, and implica...
The fuel of "Fire of Love" is the volcanologist subject’s magma-proof adoration for each other and what they’ve laid eyes on.
…has that same sense of playfulness but also wants to explore [Katia and Maurice's] obsession, their willingness to face danger.
Fire of Love, excavates their unique story, and the jaw-dropping footage the Kraffts left behind, in a film exploding with awe for the mysteri...
The film is one of the year’s few awe-inspiring documentaries -- a visually ravishing record, a bustling adventure, and an engrossing characte...
There’s a reason that volcanoes have, throughout human history, been worshiped and placated like gods. Maurice and Katia Krafft represent ...
Already an extremely French cocktail, Fire of Love gets a final dash of existentialism that makes it linger on the tongue: if Godard had ...
I was really compelled by the ideas Taika Waititi was teasing in this film, but the actual style of it – the eagerness to please – made m...
The film’s approach skirts around the actual science of the Kraffts’ work, but it does explore the psychology of a shared passion…
A movie which captures the overlapping unpredictability and ineffable beauty of both volcanoes and human bonds, and the unknown length of fuse whic...
Purely spectacular as it is, Fire of Love is also a riveting film about film: a salute to the power of the Kraffts’ canny, witty images.
The result is more than a mere nature documentary. It is one of the most moving and mesmerizing films of the year, a meditation on the wonders...
A wholly satisfying, overwhelming documentary, as disarming as it is explosive. To know the Kraffts is to share their lava affair, and sharing thei...
It’s a doomed love story on every level, a gorgeous collage of a film in which romance, scientific inquiry and death do a 93-m...
[Sara Dosa] has crafted a sensitive narration, softly whispered by her fellow film-maker Miranda July, that dares to ask huge questions about...
The film oscllates between the playfully on the nose and the existentially profound with the confidence of a volcano chaser surfing on a river...
It succeeds in highlighting this tenet of their work, making it a valuable introduction not just to their unique lives and groundbreaking stud...
As usual with Peele, there’s a lot unpack, what with the symbols and allegories that gesture toward the business of spectacle: wrangling the i...
The visually entrancing volcano documentary "Fire of Love" chronicles a magnificent obsession and might even make that obsession your own.
The filmmaker isn’t so much interested in telling us about the Kraffts or even about the little-understood science of volcanology, but in creating...
Fire of Love may not make profound sense of this demise, or probe into their relationship much at all, but as a broad-brush rendering of the K...
The film percolates with a love of movies, specifically the French New Wave; at its best moments it feels like Breathless, if Jean-Paul Belmon...
Trier finds plenty to mine in Julie’s uncertainty – about her future and her desire for children – and Reinsve is sensational playi...
It’s content to nod and stare and keep an admiring distance. With lava flows and ash plumes, that’s an understandable response and works fine. With...
This is a satisfying production that’s one part mystery, two parts romance and, ultimately, a message movie about being kind and embracing out...
The droning narration nearly killed the film for me but others might like it. The images are spectacular, sublime, astonishing and terrifying, and...
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