The New Women (2001)

THE NEW WOMEN  (2001)  ¢ 1/2
    D: Todd Hughes
    Mary Woronov, Jamie Tolbert, Sandra Kinder,
    Jane Ray, Roma Maffia, Jenny Shimizu,
    Amy Hill, Tracy Reiner, Michael White
I was in the middle of watching this movie when Ms. Applebaum came in. It was the part where the four women in the big camper are at the feminist commune. See, there was this rainstorm, and after it was over, everybody slept for two days, but the men never woke up. So the women had to take over everything, but eventually a lot of them started starving and wandering around like zombies looking for food, and that's when the four women got out of town in the camper. They're trying to get to a place called Elysium that they've heard about on the radio, and one of the women is pregnant, and they end up at the commune because the women there say they've got a doctor, but it turns out the doctor's just a Ph.D., not a medical type, and after some freeform dancing and a lot of painfully blissed-out rhetoric, the camper women get out of there, except for one of them who decides to stay at the commune. After about a minute of this, Ms. Applebaum said, "This is real bad." Then the three women who are left meet these two psycho chicks who terrorize them, and one of the campers has to dance for the psycho chicks, and she even takes her blouse off, and this is where Ms. Applebaum said (again), "This is real bad." So then the camper women escape from the psycho chicks and they get to Elysium, which is like this woman-run clinic and medical facility and it seems real nice at first, but it's not, and the pregnant woman has her baby and then she escapes in the camper with a little girl, but the other women are left behind, and then it's like 15 years later, and I'm pretty sure that somewhere in there, Ms. Applebaum said (yet again), "This is real bad."