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fire of love - by Nicole - startingfromnix

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I am metaphorically dancing on a volcano

Fire of Love is a documentary of mostly primary clips recorded by a volcanologist couple, Katia and Maurice Krafft, whose life missions were to climb up, study, and profile active volcanoes together. They lost their lives to an eruption on Mount Unzen, Japan, in 1991. The videos were eerily beautiful – billowing grey smoke engulfing whole mountains. Lava running into ocean. The little Mission cinema lit up with its colors. Deep yellow. Glowing magma. Dark burgundy. From the Roger Ebert blog, citing Pedro Almodovar, it isn't enough for a film to move: it needs to dance. This movie dances.…

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