CULTURE
Greta Bellamacina’s new film charts the journey of two young women from innocence to maturity, while her latest poetry collection explores the miraculous cycles at work in the natural world
‘THERE ARE MANY LIVES IN ALL OF US, MANY women we have yet to become,’ says Greta Bellamacina, who, as an actress, poet, model and script-writer, is herself an good example of the multitudes we can contain. Today, she is talking about the central theme of the film she has co-written with the director Jaclyn Bethany, Tell That to the Winter Sea, in which she and Amber Anderson appear as a pair of rising-star dancers, whose childhood friendship turns into their first romantic relationship. They are seeing each other for the first time in years, at the hen-party weekend of Bellamacina’s character: she is about to marry an older man who provides the bohemian, ‘big’ life the girls had dreamt of when practising pirouettes together on the b
