THE MISANDRISTS are a separatist faction training in a remote German chateau whose front is a school for wayward girls. Crippled Big Mother (Susanne Sachße, THE RASPBERRY REICH) holds court over eight girls who have all been sexually exploited in one way or another by the patriarchy - among them Isolde (Kita Updike), Ute (Victoire Laly), Hilde (Olivia Kundisch), and Helga (Lina Bembe) - with the help of former nun and porn star Sister Dagmar (Viva Ruiz, ADAM & STEVE), Sister Kembra (Kembra Pfahler, WAR IS MENSTRUAL ENVY), Sister Barbara (Caprice Crawford), and sister Grete (Grete Gehrke) who are training them for a revolution at some unspecified point in the future. The closeness of certain girls draws the jealousy and ire of others despite one of the central tenets being that there is no shame in love between two or more women; however, other influences seem more destabilizing. A scheme by Big Mother to make money and spread their message through the production of pornography free of male influence nonetheless requires the official pornographers to watch gay porn for research, some of which proves unexpectedly arousing, while loner Isolde swears infatuated Hilde into secrecy when she hides wounded Volker (Til Schindler) in the school - ostensibly out of solidarity with the revolutionary ideals that have him on the run from the (male) authorities - and there may be an undercover cop among their number. The hothouse atmosphere leads to a number of betrayals, and more than one character must reconcile their revolutionary beliefs with their sexual politics. Bruce LaBruce's (GERONTOPHILIA) latest campy fusion of gender, sexuality, and politics starts out well-enough an attractive and kinetic mise-en-scene and performances that are both arch yet possess conviction amidst much silliness (with terms like "Ger(wo)many", "Wo-manual", and "Her-story" used unironically). Unfortunately, the whole thing runs out of steam by the climax, which manages to be both queasily unpleasant and flat.