Sentences with phrase «teasing noblewoman»

But it's immediately clear from the outset that Zama's wait will be in vain, and that as he wearily seeks a series of favors — from a local minister or a teasing noblewoman (Lola Dueñas, a regular of Pedro Almodóvar, one of the film's co-producers)-- we will observe the stagnation and rot of the colonialist experiment firsthand.