Review: As both a doc about volcanoes and a scientists' romance, 'Fire of Love' kicks ash
by Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times
Jul 06, 2022
4 minutes
The visually entrancing volcano documentary "Fire of Love" chronicles a magnificent obsession and might even make that obsession your own. It didn't have to work terribly hard in my case. I was already a budding volcanophile when I decided, at age 8, that I'd never seen anything more beautiful than the geysers of lava raining down on Kilauea, a hyperactive Hawaiian monster that I soon declared my favorite volcano in the world. (It was one of several contenders.) I wasn't much older when I learned that one of Kilauea's longest recorded eruptions actually started the day I was born, one of those funny coincidences that felt eerily prophetic at the time.
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