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By rearranging vantage points of power, reworking the networks of carnal desire, and by reclaiming the command of storytelling, the film stands behind its heroine entirely on her personal quest to liberation that mirrors the societal one against rigid patriarchal orders.

Though hardly subtle in its metaphoric intent, this story of a rural cult of all women, segregated into “sisters” and “wives,” led by a single powerful man makes for an unnervingly effective thriller dripping with atmosphere and foreshadowing.

What makes The Other Lamb feel fresh is how Szumowska renders her world — in vivid colors and inky blacks, with slow zooms that turn their placid, pastoral lives into something uncanny.

That’s the problem, though, with this exceptionally beautiful film. At the start, you find yourself gasping at the fine images. But after a few gasps too many, your imagination just runs out of air, and you find yourself getting distracted by mundane questions.

As a study in atmospheric seclusion, “The Other Lamb” is beautifully crafted enough to hold your attention, but you can’t shake the feeling that Selah’s next chapter — and Cassidy’s — might well be the more interesting movie.

Existing outside of time and place, “The Other Lamb” is a gorgeous revenge fable with an excess of atmosphere and zero subtlety — a mallet wrapped in gauze and girlish laughter.

As wonderful as “The Other Lamb” appears on screen and its cast embodies the story’s tension, it feels as if there is missing something from the final picture. The movie is slight in its exploration of dark subjects like cults, inter-generational dynamics and abuse, without coming to any kind of conclusion or closure.

Szumowska and McMullen attempt to distinguish their film through a rush of hallucinatory visions, rife with symbolic images of sacrificial lambs and feminine "impurities." But in reinforcing their themes of religious and cultural oppression, they hit the nail too squarely on the head.

It's a beguiling, complex movie that is open to many interpretations.