Curb Entertainment has taken on international sales excluding France, Italy and the UK to Merci Docteur Rey, a completed production from Merchant Ivory Productions in association with Eat Your Soup Productions.

The film, which screened recently at the Festival du Film de Paris, was written and directed by Andrew Litvack.

Dianne Wiest, Jane Birkin, Jerry Hall, Simon Callow, Vanessa Redgrave and Stanislas Merhar star in the Paris-set picture which is the story of a young man recruited into an illicit love triangle to watch a much older man's sexual liaison but ends up witnessing what turns out to be his murder.

The deal was negotiated by Carole Curb and Glen Reynolds for Curb Entertainment and Richard Abramowitz, Richard Hawley, and Ismail Merchant for Merchant Ivory.

Producers on the film are Rahila Bootwala, Paul Bradley, Natalie Gastaldo and Merchant.