Shem

Perhaps the most distinctive thing about Caroline Roboh's rambling follow-up to her 1983 debut CLEMENTINE TANGO is that it features one of the least likable protagonists ever: a handsome but impossibly arrogant and shallow young Londoner named Daniel. At the movies outset, Daniel chucks both his job as a graphic designer at an ad agency and, most cruelly, his older girlfriend (Roboh), whose teenage son (Pavel Rimburg) Daniel has been bedding as well. Daniel's one shot at redemption comes when his beloved grandmother, Nana (Hadassha Hungar Diamant), a Jewish emigre from Vienna and the only person Daniel appears to love or respect, asks him to search for the grave of h...