“Roma” — The Emperor has no Clothes.

This year’s Best Foreign Language Picture Oscar winner is a joke so bad by a director so good no one dared to laugh.

When Mozart’s Divertimento for Two Horns and String Quartet first surfaced it was so absurdly bad people assumed it was a sample of the great composer’s infamous sense of humor. It’s since been known as The Musical Joke.

We now have a Cinematic Joke, a film so bad by a director so good it had to be a sham. The film, by Alfonso Cuaron is called “Roma”, and the members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences just gave it an Oscar, in fact three; Best Foreign Language Picture, Best Director and Best Cinematography.

That’s right, the Best Foreign Language Picture winner, was produced, written and directed by a celebrated film maker whose reputation was so good no one wanted to be the first to say — this is crap!

So the film gathered steam (Like the Emperor parading through town in his underwear until a child too young to be afraid declared him naked.) and rolled on all the way to Oscar’s podium. And the public responded with “It won three Oscars. It must be good.”, and logged onto Netflix and sat back with the microwave popcorn and after a few minutes said…