Rising Frenchactress Julie Gayet is to star in British director Richard Jobson'ssupernatural love story Woman In Winter.

UK seller ParkEntertainment, which is handling Jobson's ThePurifiers and its follow-up The OnlyOnes, has acquired international rights. Shot digitally, the film beginsproduction in Edinburgh in November with the support of Adobe.

The story,written by Jobson, is about around a maverick physicist who falls in love witha mysterious French photographer. Vestry Films' Chris Atkins, Jobson's regularproducer, is producing.