Glasgow Film Festival Short Skin

Adolescence can be difficult enough without believing that you are different from everyone else. Sensitive seventeen year-old Edoardo (a delightful Matteo Creatini) is more than ready to experience life, love and sex but he has suffered from phimosis since childhood. An extremely tight foreskin has made sex impossible and is threatening to turn him into a nervous wreck. A bawdy streak of American Pie-style humour runs through Duccio Chiarini’s first feature (watch out for the scene with the octopus) but the film ultimately has more in common with Gregory’s Girl, as its gawky, endearing hero tries to negotiate the mysteries of girls, growing pains and male insecurity.