BOY IN A BATHTUB Soft Focus Productions and Bleu Productions Presents Screenplay written by Claire Menichi and Maria Beatty Directed by Maria Beatty Executive Producer; Stuart Young and Saul Kaminsky Producers; Paul Goldberg and Maria Beatty Starring; Olja Hrustic (Flora Pearle), Brandon Ruckdashel (Virgil), Lynn Mancinelli (Anne), Clyde Baldo (Oscar) Director of Photography; Scott Beardslee Assistant Director; Elena Primost Hair and Make-Up; Vera Stromsted Costume Designer; Gail Baldoni Production Designer; Veronica Evanega-Kahler Additional Cast; Alana Jackler (Lesbian), Yvette Bass (Prostitute), Ashley Rose Sansane (Prostitute), Alicia Rae (Prostitute), Fei Fei (Lesbian), Simone Lazer (Eccentric), Matt Berkowitz (Drunkard), Tony Scheinman (Intellectual), Mike White (Amputee) USA, 106 minutes, color, 2006 At the height of the 1920's Paris, Flora, a beautiful courtesan and a kept woman by a famous surgeon falls madly in love with Virgil, a cherubin florist, 20 years younger than her who wants to become a painter. She locks him inside her house, in a secret boudoir to give him the opportunity to paint as he wishes. She gives him canvases and brushes, dresses him with the finest silk from China, everyday she spoils him with the most sugary pastries and washes him cerimoniously and sensually. He becomes at the same time her lover, her child, her double, her wife and her sexual toy. But this paradise will eventually be destroyed... Maria Beatty is a reknown filmmaker dealing in the lesbian, fetishist and erotic esthetic. Boy in a Bathtub is her first feature film and her first film including dialogue. Shot splendidly as "erotic noir", this queer drama shows a universe where genders are switched and the barriers between love and dependency are blurred.