They paint a picture with such words, but, as they say, a picture often paints a thousand words. And you can quote me.
The film is rather like a video scrapbook of Katia and Maurice's lives -- how and where the couple met, the places they've been to observe the heat of the earth's heart, supporters and detractors, why the project matters, how the proceeds from the books helped raise funds for future excursions, and the all-important slide-show (remember how friends would invite you over to watch Kodak slides of the how and when they left their footprints on Mt. Kilimanjaro, talkin' and talkin' all the time, like you gave a sh*t, and wondered if there was more wine to be had, and if he'd notice if you slipped out back with his pretty wife for some pick-up Greco-Roman tongue action in the mouthy moshpit?). It's a great slideshow, though.
This extraordinary YouTube excerpt from the film (distributed by National Geographic and Neon) says it all:
It may even count as a spoiler alert. No, wait, when they get killed in the end is probably the real spoiler.
Aside from an inexplicable voice over narrator who sounded peculiarly like Laura Poitras in Citizen Four, as if the narrator were Ed Snowden revealing the planet's hush-hush secrets and permanent record, I can't recommend Fire of Love enough. What a couple! What a project! Wow!
And while you're at it, why not take off some time from your heady political activism to watch the PBS documentary on Lewis and Clark. Feel good again.
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