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‘Four Souls of Coyote’ Review: From Hungary Comes a Soulful Rendering of Native American Origin Stories
Directed by Áron Gauder, the mostly hand-drawn epic is at once solemn and playful in dealing with the world’s creation and modern threats to nature.
With distinctly stylized animation, the Hungarian feature “ Four Souls of Coyote ” from director Áron Gauder retells another version of events, focused on how Turtle Island (what’s now known as North America) and the creatures that inhabit it, including humans, came to be. Coyote’s arrogance, his eventual humbling, and ultimately his righteous sacrifice — an arc that places the character somewhere on the spectrum that separates good and evil — act as a reminder that humans’ role in the grand scheme of things is not of larger importance than the other creatures in the predetermined circle of life. Although “Four Souls of Coyote” suffers from the sheer ambitiousness of how much it attempts to cover while its present-day component wraps too neatly for comfort, its handcrafted aesthetic and still-relevant ancestral precepts make for an illuminating experience.
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