>> his oscar nod is one of the greater frauds perpetrated on
>the
>>american public, though i admire it in the way i admire the
>>cold precision and guile of a bernie madoff.
>
>Yes, you got him. Michael Haneke, the slick con man. His
>filmography is full of shameless Oscar bait. When will the
>American public catch on to this trickster?

Pretty much. I understand not liking the flick, but Haneke is as far from this kind of guy as possible.