‘Sister Aimee’ Film Review: Fictionalized Tale of the Evangelist’s Disappearance Gets Lost On Its Own Path

This look at Aimee Semple McPherson’s desert sojourn buries itself in layers of metatext and revisionism

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It’s hard to keep up with a movie that is constantly changing its story. It’s even harder when that story is stranger than fiction and may even be fiction — but about a real person. Such is the case of “Sister Aimee,” writers-directors Samantha Buck and Marie Schlingmann’s (“Canary”) film that scrambles together a mix of rumors and fantasies about notorious evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson. But the finished product fails to say much about these tales.

It’s worth noting that a woman who is actually able to control her narrative, even filling it with lies, without it being usurped by a man’s perspective in any era is an extraordinary feat.

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