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Combining epic visuals and dreamy narration, Sara Dosa’s documentary Fire of Love is a beautiful retelling of the tragic story of French volcanologists Katia and Maurice Kraft, writes Alistair HarknessFire of Love (PG) ****DC League of Super-Pets (PG) ***Hit the Road (12A) ****Joyride (15) *Featuring the sort of epic visuals one might expect to find in a Christopher Nolan movie, Sara Dosa’s documentary Fire of Love tells the incredible story of French volcanologists Katia and Maurice Kraft.

Having fallen for each other amid the erupting lava streams and exploding mountaintops of active volcanoes across the globe, the Krafts' professional passion provides a relationship metaphor that's too good to pass up, so it’s to Dosa’s credit that she tempers the fiery imagery and close-ups of hot molten rocks spewing from cracks in the earth with a dreamy narration – hauntingly voiced by Miranda July – that helps simultaneously examine and maintain the mystery of her subjects’ lives just as their work did with the volcanoes they ultimately sacrificed themselves to study.

Interspersing news reports and chat show appearances with astonishing footage from the Krafts' own archive, the film is more essay-like in form, deviating from the faux objectivity of the medium with playful asides and inventive use of split screens, annotations and animation.

But it also draws the curtain back on the documentary process itself to show how aware of their own public personae and filmmaking prowess the Krafts became as the years rolled on.