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Still from Létal Morbier — Source: Here

In keeping with Dark Sentiments custom, we will take a slight side route tonight to revel in the fell imaginings of selected world artists.

For your viewing pleasure, prepare to regard Létal Morbier, described thus by its creators:

A colony of mice regularly performs a mystic ceremony in which a member is chosen to be carried triumphantly away to a cheesy paradise. Owen and Flynn dream of being chosen, until one day Owen decides to follow the procession.

For those who speak neither French nor cheese, the title of tonight’s feature presentation means “Lethal Morbier”, and while the former word stand on its own merits for the kind of audience we host here, the latter bears further elaboration:

“Morbier is a semi-soft cow’s milk cheese named after a small village of the same name in Franche-Comté. The cheese with a thin black layer in the middle is a bit soft and fairly elastic. This ivory-coloured cheese has a sticky rind, a mild aroma and a creamy flavour. Earlier, Morbier was made with a layer of morning and evening milk, but these days it is made from one batch of milk and the ash is spread over it to follow the tradition. The cheese takes about 45 days to 3 months for maturation.” ~ Cheese.com

Ever so French, n’est ce pas? And very much in keeping with my poem published here in 2018 titled The French Will Eat It which you can read complete with its educational preamble by clicking here. For brevity though, here’s just the poem which goes something like this:

The French Will Eat It

By LFM

I’ve smelled cheeses fair and foul,
With tastes from bliss to boiled owl,
Fair curds to make the angels sing,
And fudgy turds, the best to fling.

Whether eaten now or then,
The type of cheese decides the when.
While cheddar’s aging on the shelf,
Casu marzu eats itself.

Danish blue will bloom to death,
Ere Jarlsberg breathes it first sweet breath
Creamy brie is worth a song,
Unless it sits around too long.

Every nation has its kind,
And of those, some will call to mind,
“Who’d do this once, and then repeat it?”
Never mind, the French will eat it.

With that out of the way, pour a shot of your favourite clog remover and settle back to enjoy all seven minutes of Létal Morbier, another superb production of ESMA – Ecole Supérieure des Métiers Artistiques, directed by Raphael Audureau, Elise Larvor, Laurène Binet, Thibaut Le Meledo, Solène De Vulpian, Tom Pinard, Lilian Larignon, and Hugo Tabone.