IN THE MOOD FOR LAVA

From Dante’s Peak to Werner Herzog’s Into The Inferno, volcanoes have long exercised a pull on filmmakers. Director Sara Dosa reframes that magnetism on multiple fronts in Fire Of Love, a documentary brimming with elemental force, feeling and spectacle.

Love story and scientific focuses on husband–and–wife volcanologists Katia and Maurice Krafft. While directing magical–realist documentary (2019), Dosa needed footage to portray Iceland’s volcanic origins. Her research touched on the Kraffts, who adored volcanoes and amassed swathes of footage before they died in a pyroclastic surge from Japan’s Mount Unzen in 1991. “The more we learned about them, ” says Dosa, “the more we fell in love with them.”