Delicate and heartwarming, Orlando von Einsiedel’s stirring documentary “The Cycle of Love” is the kind of film whose sweet subject transcends time and borders.
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"von Einsiedel will be the first to admit that “The Cycle of Love” is something a little different for him, a tale of unashamed joy and positivity likely to leave even the most hardened pessimist with a smile on their face.
[Cycle of Love] tells the genuinely incredible story of P.K. Mahanandia, a young and poor Delhi street artist who in 1975, while drawing portraits for tourists and passersby, met Swedish traveller Lotta. The two soon fell in love, with P.K. driven by a prophecy made to him by an astrologer as a baby that said, “You will marry a girl who is not from the village, not even from this country, she will be musical, own a jungle and be born under the sign of the ox.” As it happens, Lotta was born in May, played the recorder and piano and while she didn’t own a jungle, her family did have a small forest. He knew it was destiny. They married."
— Alex Ritman, Variety