\"El lado oscuro de Eros: amor y frustración en Our Last Spring (1959) y The Wastrel (1960) de Michael Cacoyannis\", en SALVADOR VENTURA, Francisco (Ed.), Cine e historias (Paris, Université Paris-Sud, 2015), 147-161.

In the late 1950's, the Greek-Cypriot director Michael Cacoyannis took a break from his own cinematographic career path to bring two novels to the silver screen. These two novels were written by two different authors (Cosmas Politis and Frederic Wakeman) and have many common elements. Cacoyannis' two films, Our Last Spring (1959) and The Wastrel (1960), the former filmed in Greece, the latter in Italy, delve into the frustrations of childhood and of adolescence that trigger authentic tragedies in the lives of the protagonists. The director presents love as the only remedy capable of curing the deep wounds of the past, thereby anticipating the themes of betrayal and death that would become the focus of his next film, the cinematographic adaptation of Euripides' Electra, which would gain international fame in 1962.