Ms. Huppert dominates the stage with her intensely minimalist style of acting, but disconcertingly, Mr. Lassalle has turned Jason (Jean-Quentin Châtelain) into a caricature of a modern cad whose impassive "this is best for everyone" explanation for his desertion of Medea provokes more laughter than shock.
8. Evelyn Pierce Brosnann plays against type, and very effectively, in this 2002 fact-based film about an unemployed alcoholic in 1953 Dublin whose children are put in orphanages after his wife's desertion.
In and around Baghdad, the desertion rate is lower, but even among Saddam's elite Republican Guard divisions, whose loyalty to their leader has been unquestioned until now, 23% have deserted.
"The quickness to arms, the quickness to invade, I think that caused a kind of desertion of what has been known as the Christian right," Hybels, whose Willow Creek Association now includes 12,000 churches, told me over the summer.
The Late Film, a series at the BAMcinématek in Brooklyn that starts on April 30 and continues through much of May, explores movies whose contradictory energies are similar to those at play in "The Circus Animals' Desertion".
To all the Sids who passed away this past year, the friends who enriched our lives with their wisdom or humor or thoughtfulness, the friends who knew us better than we knew ourselves, the friends who were there for us when desertion would have been an easier option, to all the millions of friends whose names will not appear on a Jumbotron at the Oscars or Superbowl, I tip my hat to you.
Desertion is the key reason cited by Eritreans -the largest group of applicants last year - whose country imposes unlimited military service on all able-bodied men and women.
The desertion of traditional center-left parties was a boon for the so called "Dutch Trudeau" Jesse Klaver, whose Groenlinks party picked up 12 seats.
Fined and exiled after being accused of various misdemeanours, some true and some apocryphal, he could never conceal his hurt at how he had been treated by Len Hutton, whose devastating captain's report about his Yorkshire team-mate's conduct was not so much an act of desertion but a sacrificial surrendering of Trueman to the MCC's guns.
With Rochester and Strood odds on to turn Ukip and several more MPs for whom desertion is becoming an increasingly attractive option on one side of the house, and a front bench team whose faces are now twisted into a rictus of forced jollity on the other, the race to immolation is neck and neck.
Ms. Kim, whose first feature was "In Between Days," a minimalist exercise about an emotionally isolated teenager, has chosen a more accessible subject for her new film: the desertion of two children.
