Bizarre love triangle: Fire of Love

NATURE / The extraordinary love story of volcanologist couple Katia and Maurice Krafft, who died as explosively as they lived. Sara Dosa has a knack for capturing the interplay between humankind and the natural world, distilling it to its inseparable essence. Her 2014 feature debut, The Last Season, trailed two mushroom-hunting war vets deep into the Oregon woods; while 2019’s The Seer and the Unseen followed an Icelandic «seer» who acts as a liaison between the country’s elves, trolls and «hidden people» and us mere mortals, And now with this year’s exquisitely-crafted, Sundance-winning Fire of Love, the Indie Spirit Award-nominated director (and Peabody award-winning producer) allows us to get even more up close and personal: to witness members of our species literally – and willingly and beautifully – embrace consummation by force majeure.

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