Here are review links for this film submitted by our members:
- Travis Burgess @ The Sacred Wall
- Excerpt: Fire of Love’ is the year’s first truly great documentary
- Gregory Carlson @ southpawfilmworks.net
- Andrea Chase @ KillerMovieReviews.com
- Excerpt: Dosa infuses her story with a dash of the mythic, honoring her subjects who came to see volcanoes in mythic terms despite being rigorous scientists.
- Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: Maurice voices a fateful philosophy, one which would catch up to them on Japan’s Mount Unzen, an event when finally told comes across as anticlimactic due to July’s monotonous reading, an enervation Dosa’s selected footage mostly overcomes.
- Marilyn Ferdinand @ Alliance of Women Film Journalists
- Excerpt: Director Sara Dosa pays tribute to the pioneering work of Katia and Maurice Krafft, scientists who got as close as possible to upwards of 200 active volcanoes, photographing and filming eruptions, taking samples and readings of lava and gases, and creating books and movies to pay the bills and spread information to lay audiences and scientists alike. Much of the film is composed of the footage they shot themselves.
- [New] | Mark Hobin @ Fast Film Reviews
- Excerpt: Features the most awe-inspiring footage of active volcanoes I have ever seen.
- Jared Mobarak @ JaredMobarak.com
- Excerpt: While [the Kraffts’] work therefore speaks for itself, Dosa’s documentary brilliantly speaks for them.
- Bev Questad @ itsjustmovies.com
- Excerpt: On Variety’s list for the top five 2023 Academy Award documentary nominations, “Fire of Love” is a visual cinematic masterpiece of volcano science colliding with true story-telling, thanks to the leadership of Dosa and the painstaking editing genius of Erin Casper and Jocelyne Chaput.
- Diego Salgado @ SoFilm [Spanish]
- Josh Thayer (formerly Taylor) @ The Forgetful Film Critic
- Excerpt: Fire of Love is by turns exultant, melancholy, and awe-inspiring. The love story – and it’s a love story in two senses – at the heart of the film is a testament to human obsession, ingenuity, and relentlessness.
