Short Skin - I dolori del giovane Edo

2014 [ITALIAN]

Comedy / Drama

7
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 29% · 50 ratings
IMDb Rating 6.4/10 10 760 760

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Plot summary

Ever since he was a child, the seventeen-years-old Edoardo has suffered from a malformation of the foreskin that stops him from masturbating and makes him insecure and ill at ease with girls. Shut up in his sexless microcosm, Edoardo reacts with irritation to the pressures of the outside world, which do nothing but exacerbate his insecurity. Forced against his will to emerge from the shadows in which he has hidden for years, Edoardo will initially try to solve his problem by clumsy stratagems before finding, at last, the courage to face his own fears.

Director

Duccio Chiarini Photo
Duccio Chiarini

Top cast

Anna Ferzetti Photo
Anna Ferzetti as Anna
Bianca Nappi Photo
Bianca Nappi as Daniela
Francesca Agostini Photo
Francesca Agostini as Bianca
Francesco Acquaroli Photo
Francesco Acquaroli as Doctor
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775.46 MB
1280*690
Italian 2.0
Unrated
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24 fps
1 hr 24 min
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1.41 GB
1920*1036
Italian 2.0
Unrated
Subtitles us  
24 fps
1 hr 24 min
Seeds 2

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by R T 1 / 10

There's not a whole lot to unpack here

There's not a whole lot to unpack here. I borrowed this movie from the Allen County library in Indiana because it said it was a comedy and I didn't laugh or care about any character in the movie, which was pretty flat aside from the outrageous scene where Matteo Creatini's character (the actor was 18 at the time this was filmed) did unspeakable things to a dead squid he bought at the market. A comedy? Not even. Revolting? Definitely. That was the only part of the movie that even stood out. If there was another movie I regret sitting down to watch as much as this, I think it would be Saw or Bio-Dome.
Reviewed by denpolites 7 / 10

Deconstructing the Hollywood 'macho' teenager

Reviewed by johannes2000-1 9 / 10

A strange subject, but also a wonderful and endearing coming-of-age film.

It seems a very strange subject for a movie: a young teen who suffers from phimosis, which turns his sexual development into a painful and frustrating experience. The English title "Short skin" by the way seems a bad choice: if anything, it's not about a too short, but rather about a too long (or too narrow) skin. They better should have literally translated the Italian title: "The pains of young Edo", which so wonderfully captures the physical as well as the emotional inflictions that main character Edo has to endure.Anyway, once you accept this unusual premise, you are in for a very sympathetic, endearing and insightful coming-of-age film. The atmosphere reminded me very much of "The hand of God" by Sorrentino (2021): a sensitive teenager searching for sexual and emotional fulfillment, in the midst of all kinds of everyday personal and family turmoils, set in the sensuous light of an Italian summer.Of course, here the phimosis is the pivot of the story, and this makes for some awkward but also hilarious scenes. Director Duccio Chiarini shows everything that young Edo goes through without any prudish restraint, which gives the movie a very honest and open feel. The whole thing is evidently a curious but fascinating metaphor: the fear of a young teen in a sexual situation to show his true self and experience rejection (aka pain). This is cleverly symbolized at the end, when the cured and clearly elated Edo dares to stick out his head out of the window of a riding trainApart from this specific premise, there is a lot more to enjoy in this movie. Like the dialogues of Edo with his precocious sister, with his macho and boasting best friend, with his bickering parents and even with his doctor, they are all so funny, meaningful and sensitive! The photography is great, and I loved the editing, all these short, almost fragmented scenes in which at times nothing much seemed to happen, but together they made the whole emotional development of Edo all the more visible. Chiarini doesn't use complicated means or heavy twists and turns, but lets the story evolve in a very easy and natural way. In which he is greatly helped by the wonderful acting of young Matteo Creatini, who very convincingly and touchingly shows all the inner (and outward) turmoils of Edo.
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