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Fire of Love

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Metascore
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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.
Director
Sara Dosa
Year
2022
Genre
documentary, biography
Box Office
$1,120,412
Production
Sandbox Films,Cottage M,Intuitive Pictures,National Geographic Documentary Films
Awards
Nominated for 1 Oscar. 34 wins & 66 nominations total
Homepage
https://films.nationalgeographic.com/fire-of-love
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In a cold world, all the watches started to freeze. - Fire of Love 00:06
In a cold world, all the watches started to freeze.
The sun came and went between blizzards and gusts which erased all bearings. - Fire of Love 00:07
The sun came and went between blizzards and gusts which eras...
In this world lived a fire - Fire of Love 00:09
In this world lived a fire
This is Katia, and this is Maurice. - Fire of Love 00:05
This is Katia, and this is Maurice.
There is no definitive account of this first encounter - Fire of Love 00:10
There is no definitive account of this first encounter
And these rose-tinted moments a few years later. - Fire of Love 00:06
And these rose-tinted moments a few years later.
Parts of Katia and Maurice's story remain lost to time. - Fire of Love 00:06
Parts of Katia and Maurice's story remain lost to time.
In one story, Katia and Maurice meet by chance on a bench - Fire of Love 00:07
In one story, Katia and Maurice meet by chance on a bench
In a second, - Fire of Love 00:08
In a second,
The most detailed account is a blind date at a café. - Fire of Love 00:06
The most detailed account is a blind date at a café.
They bond over their first loves, Mount Etna and Mount Stromboli. - Fire of Love 00:08
They bond over their first loves, Mount Etna and Mount Strom...
Katia, a rebel who was sent to a school for unruly girls, - Fire of Love 00:10
Katia, a rebel who was sent to a school for unruly girls,
Maurice would return to Stromboli - Fire of Love 00:09
Maurice would return to Stromboli
Growing up in the rubble of postwar Alsace, - Fire of Love 00:10
Growing up in the rubble of postwar Alsace,
They take refuge in the mysteries of the natural world. - Fire of Love 00:06
They take refuge in the mysteries of the natural world.
The Vosges and Rhine fault lines shifting imperceptibly beneath them. - Fire of Love 00:07
The Vosges and Rhine fault lines shifting imperceptibly bene...
At the end of this version, the café closes and it begins to rain. - Fire of Love 00:07
At the end of this version, the café closes and it begins to...
November 19th, 1967, - Fire of Love 00:10
November 19th, 1967,
The territory once colonized as French Indochina. - Fire of Love 00:05
The territory once colonized as French Indochina.
One week later, - Fire of Love 00:07
One week later,
The next day, they show up on the front page of L'Humanité. - Fire of Love 00:06
The next day, they show up on the front page of L'Human...
But human pursuits of power begin to feel vain and absurd - Fire of Love 00:08
But human pursuits of power begin to feel vain and absurd
It's also the plate tectonic revolution, - Fire of Love 00:08
It's also the plate tectonic revolution,
They devour each hypothesis, each myth. - Fire of Love 00:05
They devour each hypothesis, each myth.
Everything that has been gleaned so far from the archives of the Earth. - Fire of Love 00:07
Everything that has been gleaned so far from the archives of...
They wonder what forms and re-forms the world. - Fire of Love 00:06
They wonder what forms and re-forms the world.
To these mysteries they long to get closer. - Fire of Love 00:06
To these mysteries they long to get closer.
With just enough grant money and a donated car, - Fire of Love 00:10
With just enough grant money and a donated car,
Katia is the geochemist, - Fire of Love 00:06
Katia is the geochemist,
Except the car breaks down 27 times. - Fire of Love 00:05
Except the car breaks down 27 times.
Undeterred, they spend the next few summers - Fire of Love 00:08
Undeterred, they spend the next few summers
Katia and Maurice are after - Fire of Love 00:13
Katia and Maurice are after
What is it, they ask, that makes the Earth's heart beat? - Fire of Love 00:06
What is it, they ask, that makes the Earth's heart beat...
They study, examine and question. - Fire of Love 00:06
They study, examine and question.
Katia and Maurice begin to learn the secrets of the planet - Fire of Love 00:08
Katia and Maurice begin to learn the secrets of the planet
Understanding is love's other name. - Fire of Love 00:05
Understanding is love's other name.
1970, - Fire of Love 00:08
1970,
They honeymoon on the volcanic island of Santorini, - Fire of Love 00:07
They honeymoon on the volcanic island of Santorini,
Katia and Maurice decide they will not have children. - Fire of Love 00:05
Katia and Maurice decide they will not have children.
“From here on out, life will only be volcanoes, - Fire of Love 00:08
“From here on out, life will only be volcanoes,
The young field of volcanology - Fire of Love 00:06
The young field of volcanology
Photography is a means of remembering, revisiting, - Fire of Love 00:08
Photography is a means of remembering, revisiting,
This photo shows the parabolic trajectories - Fire of Love 00:07
This photo shows the parabolic trajectories
This one shows how lava is stretched into glass wool - Fire of Love 00:07
This one shows how lava is stretched into glass wool
And this shot helps visualize plate tectonic theory. - Fire of Love 00:06
And this shot helps visualize plate tectonic theory.
Volcanology is a science of observation. - Fire of Love 00:05
Volcanology is a science of observation.
The closer they get, the more they see. - Fire of Love 00:05
The closer they get, the more they see.
The very instant a volcano wakes up, - Fire of Love 00:13
The very instant a volcano wakes up,
Maurice and Katia make their expedition to Nyiragongo, - Fire of Love 00:09
Maurice and Katia make their expedition to Nyiragongo,
They are guided by fellow volcanologist Jacques Durieux. - Fire of Love 00:06
They are guided by fellow volcanologist Jacques Durieux.
You arrive at the mouth of the volcano, - Fire of Love 00:09
You arrive at the mouth of the volcano,
Not so high, 300 meters. But very bad rock. - Fire of Love 00:06
Not so high, 300 meters. But very bad rock.
All kinds of fumaroles went through, and so it's not strong. - Fire of Love 00:05
All kinds of fumaroles went through, and so it's not st...
Here, Maurice and Katia make their home - Fire of Love 00:06
Here, Maurice and Katia make their home
Suddenly, the lava plunges down - Fire of Love 00:06
Suddenly, the lava plunges down
Katia and Maurice will eventually emerge - Fire of Love 00:08
Katia and Maurice will eventually emerge
In the immense universe - Fire of Love 00:10
In the immense universe
Red volcanoes, like Nyiragongo, - Fire of Love 00:10
Red volcanoes, like Nyiragongo,
Magma rises and fills in the gaps opened up by the movement of the Earth, - Fire of Love 00:08
Magma rises and fills in the gaps opened up by the movement ...
And up to 1200 degrees Celsius hot. - Fire of Love 00:05
And up to 1200 degrees Celsius hot.
Katia is drawn to details, the interconnectedness of things. - Fire of Love 00:06
Katia is drawn to details, the interconnectedness of things.
Maurice, the singular, the grandiose. - Fire of Love 00:06
Maurice, the singular, the grandiose.
They both observe the world, but in their own distinct ways. - Fire of Love 00:07
They both observe the world, but in their own distinct ways.
Katia, with her still camera, captures one moment with one frame. - Fire of Love 00:07
Katia, with her still camera, captures one moment with one f...
Recording a stream of seconds, 24 frames each. - Fire of Love 00:06
Recording a stream of seconds, 24 frames each.
He thirsts to get every possible shot, because the spectacle could vanish. - Fire of Love 00:08
He thirsts to get every possible shot, because the spectacle...
And Maurice to Nyiragongo, - Fire of Love 00:07
And Maurice to Nyiragongo,
Katia and Maurice knew - Fire of Love 00:06
Katia and Maurice knew
But this is the first time they experience it firsthand. - Fire of Love 00:05
But this is the first time they experience it firsthand.
They were probably running at 60 to 70 kilometers per hour. - Fire of Love 00:07
They were probably running at 60 to 70 kilometers per hour.
And this was in the morning where a lot of people were on the road - Fire of Love 00:08
And this was in the morning where a lot of people were on th...
We think that around 100 people were overwhelmed by the lava flow. - Fire of Love 00:07
We think that around 100 people were overwhelmed by the lava...
No amount of scientific research - Fire of Love 00:06
No amount of scientific research
They're in the cauldron of the devil, - Fire of Love 00:06
They're in the cauldron of the devil,
Or caught amid the warring spirits of the volcano, - Fire of Love 00:09
Or caught amid the warring spirits of the volcano,
For Katia and Maurice, - Fire of Love 00:07
For Katia and Maurice,
At only 52 years old - Fire of Love 00:08
At only 52 years old
In 1883, its parent, a volcano named Krakatau, exploded. - Fire of Love 00:07
In 1883, its parent, a volcano named Krakatau, exploded.
It conjured a tsunami so forceful that it swept - Fire of Love 00:10
It conjured a tsunami so forceful that it swept
It also ripped up this coral from the seafloor - Fire of Love 00:09
It also ripped up this coral from the seafloor
Ash traveled the globe, intensifying sunsets that transfixed - Fire of Love 00:14
Ash traveled the globe, intensifying sunsets that transfixed
Only to spring up again as a newcomer called Anak Krakatau. - Fire of Love 00:07
Only to spring up again as a newcomer called Anak Krakatau.
Any mistake that one makes can be costly for the both of them. - Fire of Love 00:06
Any mistake that one makes can be costly for the both of the...
And together, they're there for the volcano, - Fire of Love 00:09
And together, they're there for the volcano,
Katia and Maurice know - Fire of Love 00:06
Katia and Maurice know
"We have but this one short life, then we return to the ground." - Fire of Love 00:06
"We have but this one short life, then we return to the...
With her one short life, Katia dreams of growing old - Fire of Love 00:10
With her one short life, Katia dreams of growing old
Maurice burns to get closer to the fire, no matter what. - Fire of Love 00:07
Maurice burns to get closer to the fire, no matter what.
Maurice hatches this plan - Fire of Love 00:09
Maurice hatches this plan
Here, they study the largest reserve - Fire of Love 00:06
Here, they study the largest reserve
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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.

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Director: Sara Dosa
Writer: Sara Dosa, Erin Casper, Jocelyne Chaput
Production: Sandbox Films,Cottage M,Intuitive Pictures,National Geographic Documentary Films
Genre: documentary, biography
Year: 2022
MetaScore: 83/100
ImdbRating: 7.6
BoxOffice: $1,120,412
Released: 11 Nov 2022
Awards: Nominated for 1 Oscar. 34 wins & 66 nominations total
Homepage: https://films.nationalgeographic.com/fire-of-love
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