The abundance of the Kraffts' own extraordinary film footage does mean this feels like a documentary made very much on their terms, even though they’ve been dead for over 30 years.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Mar 23, 2025

There are no words other than fascinating, beautiful, and entrancing to describe Sara Dosa’s documentary about Katia and Maurice Krafft.

| Original Score: B+ | Sep 8, 2024

It is worth seeing primarily if The Fire Within is unavailable and/or as a lesser companion piece to Herzog’s masterful approach to the same basic story.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 16, 2024

Dosa focuses on this sense of dual devotion – not just the devotion between Katia and Maurice but also their joint devotion to volcanology. It is the documentary’s most intriguing theme, and it helps to elevate Fire of Love

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jul 25, 2024

Fire of Love succeeds in keeping the spirit and passion of Maurice and Katia alive...

| Jun 10, 2024

Captures both the unique personalities at its center and the way that passion — for a person or for your work — can easily consume you if you let it.

| Feb 13, 2024

Fire of Love is born out of passion. The film’s narration is romantic, merely a reflection of the awe Maurice and Katia have for volcanoes. It’s a love that can be understood by anyone who loves something unbridled adoration.

| Jul 24, 2023

The Kraffts brought savoir faire to that most philosophical and visually impressive of science experiments, the leap into the volcano against a backdrop of molten orange.

| Mar 16, 2023

Viewing Fire of Love could simply inspire feelings of amazement at several places...

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 3, 2023

The two love stories woven throughout the narrative—one between Katia and Maurice, the other between the Kraffts and the volcanoes they strove to understand—provide its fiery emotional core.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Feb 21, 2023

Sara Dosa's celebratory portrait expertly weaves together this archive, but is also filled with lovely cinematic touches of its own, from Miranda July's poetic narration to the quirky animated sequences.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 9, 2023

Sara Dosa’s documentary is a celebration of the lives and work of a married team of volcanologists, Katia and Maurice Krafft, who spend years filming and recording volcanic eruptions.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Jan 3, 2023

So much of this doc involves the filmmakers trying to make sense of and figure out who they are only from whatever archival footage they can find. This is exceptional feat to begin with, sorting through all of it...

| Original Score: 9/10 | Dec 30, 2022

It’s also a beautiful love story about two people who shared a passion for exploring and for each other.

| Dec 29, 2022

Watching this gave me the weird sensation that the world was a stage for White people and the local non-white people are just background players. The Kraffts died in Japan but no Japanese voices are heard and no Japanese volcanologist died.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 26, 2022

Fire of Love is presented in such a way that it feels like an homage to French New Wave films both in its looser structure and in its editing choices.

| Dec 23, 2022

This movie serves as a fitting tribute to the lives, careers and legacy of the Kraffts, as well as their love for each other and their dedication to the study of volcanoes.

| Original Score: A | Dec 13, 2022

An extremely existential and somewhat fitting statement on how the Kraffts lived, venturing towards the unknown rather than running from it, all experienced in the stunning documentary, Fire of Love.

| Original Score: A- | Dec 10, 2022

Sara Dosa's voice, on the other hand, does not interrupt her function as a second-hand chronicler. One could even say that her informational task sometimes degrades the climax of her images. [Full review in Spanish]

| Dec 5, 2022

Volcanoes are amazing and terrifying. This doc shows that, and the special kind of love it takes to make this your life’s passion with someone else.

| Nov 30, 2022