After starring in Yorgos Lanthimos's THE KILLING OF A SACRED DEER (pictured above), one of the strangest movies I've watched in recent years, Raffey Cassidy has gone on to take the lead in another dark movie with an animal in the title, THE OTHER LAMB. And this one sounds like it might be just as strange as SACRED DEER was.
Written by Catherine S. McMullen, THE OTHER LAMB marks the English language debut of Polish director Malgorzata Szumowska, who has already racked up twenty-one years worth of credits working in her home country. Described as "haunting and nightmarish", the film tells the story of
Selah, a young girl born into a repressive cult known as the Flock. The members of the Flock – all women and female children – live in a rural compound, and are led by one man, known only as Shepherd. Selah, a daughter who is on the cusp of teenage-hood, is given the great honor of participating in the sacred ritual of the birthing of the lambs – upon which they depend for survival – where she has a shocking and otherworldly experience. She begins to have strange visions that make her question her own reality, and everything the Shepherd has taught her and her sisters.
Cassidy is joined in the cast by Michiel Huisman and Denise Gough.
THE OTHER LAMB is produced by David Lancaster and Stephanie Wilcox of Rumble Films and Aoife O'Sullivan and Tristan Orpen Lynch of Subotica, in association with Marie Gade Denessen of Zentropa and in co-production with Umedia.
A first look image from THE OTHER LAMB can be seen below.
