SYNOPSIS : A Woman in Winter is a sensual ghost story set in Gothic Edinburgh, that explores the nature of obsessive love. Set now, Fate unites an Astronomer - Michael - with the mysterious Caroline. Told through a series of flashbacks we observe their world turn into a schizophrenic, claustrophobic dreamscape set against a backdrop of parallel worlds and black holes.

FORMAT & DURATION : HD (Panasonic Varicam)- 90 mins

STARRING : Julie Gayet, Jamie Sives, Brian Cox & Jason Flemyng

WRITER/DIRECTOR : Richard Jobson

PRODUCER : Chris Atkins

PRODUCTION COMPANY : Ventry Films

GENRE : Quantum love story

AWARDS : Nominated: Best Film, Best Director, Audience Award, Scottish BAFTAs

Setting out 'to do something new with digital technology with a very small budget', writer-director Richard Jobson has amply succeeded with this modern story of love and physics. Indisputably paying homage to Wong Kar Wai and to Jobson's beloved French cinema, A Woman in Winter makes judicious use of developing technologies to create its own visual and aural aesthetic. Wisely, Jobson and his creative team haven't allowed their digital experiments to substitute for a decent story, a Sci-Fi romance between a physicist and a French photographer which takes in theories about black holes, parallel universes and time travel. Nicely cast - Jamie Sives and Julie Gayet play the lovers, Brian Cox and Susan Lynch are among the supporting cast - and convincingly played, the film is a pleasurable and engaging watch. Breathtaking images combine with thematic curiosity and huge romanticism, leading us to conclude firstly that sometimes modest resources really are the mother of film-making invention, and secondly that perhaps techno geeks and scientists are just huge softies after all.