History Film / Jasminum

* ChickMagnet: Zeman, the actor (Bogusław Linda AdamWesting ''and'' PlayingAgainstType, as his usual fare is quite gritty)

* RunawayBride: Runaway Groom: How Natasza became BrokenBird. [[spoiler:Czeremcha left her standing at the altar. Her mother, who came from the hospital to her wedding, died a couple of days afterwards and Natasza was left on her own.]] He says it wasn't a case of cold feet, not entirely.

* {{Catchphrase}}: Eugenia often says "Co się dziwisz?" [[labelnote:translation]]What are you wondering at?[[/labelnote]]

* LoveHungry: Patrycja.

* PauperPatches: Zdrówko's old boots are as [[{{Pun}} holey]] as he is.

* ScienceIsUseless: PlayedWith. Father Kleofas uses science (calculations and tracking their movements) to determine which of the fragrant monks will be the saint - and he fails, but [[spoiler: only just - his chart, when held to sunlight against a particular Latin inscription, [[TheBookCipher highlights the words]] that name the saint as Sanitas - Zdrówko. Kleofas simply doesn't read it to the end]]. Meanwhile, Natasza does restore the paintings mundanely, but can't find what she needs to create the perfect LovePotion until [[spoiler: the StarCrossedLovers are reunited]]. So, while science isn't actually useless, there are things it just can't do.

* SignatureScent: Czeremcha, Czereśnia and Śliwa smell like their respective flowers. [[spoiler: The girl ghost smells like jasmine.]]

* NiceShoes: Eugenia's gift for Zdrówko, but he just doesn't feel like himself wearing them.

Jaśminowo, a small town somewhere in Poland, has an old monastery, only housing five monks at the present: the prior Kleofas, who loves movies and is very intellectual, the cook Zdrówko and the three monks who inexplicably smell of flowers. It also has a fragrant ghost wandering its corridors. The paintings kept there are very beautiful, though, and interesting, and worth restoring by an expert. Father Kleofas claims it's unnecessary, since his calculations say a XVI century prophecy is about to be fulfilled - a saint shall arise in the monastery, and one of the signs of his coming will be that the paintings become bright and beautiful once more.

* SwingLowSweetHarriet: In the vision Kleofas has of the XVI century pair of StarCrossedLovers, she's sitting on a swing (the [[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane real swing that's been made for Eugenia by Zdrówko]]) and he's pushing her.

* WomanScorned: [[spoiler:Natasza admits that her real reason for coming to Jaśminowo was to find and confront the man who left her at the altar - Czeremcha.]]

* YourFavourite: Brother Czereśnia will only be bribed by an antonówka (a variety of apple), although Zdrówko gives him a [=McIntosh=], much sweeter and easier to obtain if you don't have an orchard at your disposal, [[BlatantLies saying]] it's an antonówka, and Czereśnia takes it.

* {{Adorkable}}: All the monks in Jaśminowo are sweet, quirky and live in their own little worlds. Except Zdrówko, who's lovably quirky but quite practical.

* CompletelyMissingThePoint: When Zdrówko [[spoiler: gets stigmata in TheStinger]] he's horrified - that he won't be able to work in the kitchen anymore!
-->'''Zdrówko''' (speaking to a picture of saint Roch): Are you crazy?

* DreamWalker: Eugenia somehow ends up in Zdrówko's prophetic dream of saint Roch - but since she's narrating, [[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane maybe he just told her the funny dream he had]].

* ScienceIsUseless: PlayedWith. Father Kleofas uses science (calculations and tracking their movements) to determine which of the fragrant monks will be the saint - and he fails, but [[spoiler: only just - his chart, when held to sunlight against a particular Latin inscription, [[TheBookCipher highlights the words]] that name the saint as Sanitas - Zdrówko. Kleofas simply doesn't read it to the end.]] Meanwhile, Natasza does restore the paintings mundanely, but can't find what she needs to create the perfect LovePotion until [[spoiler: the StarCrossedLovers are reunited]]. So, while science isn't actually useless, there are things it just can't do.

* StarCrossedLovers: ''Ille sunt domus, ego sum pectus, tu nos connectus'' [[labelnote:translation]]He is the house, I am the heart, you will connect us[[/labelnote]]. Natasza investigates and it turns out the first Czeremcha was [[spoiler:a rich nobleman's son [[InterClassRomance in love]] with an ImpoverishedPatrician's daughter, which caused him to get LockedAwayInAMonastery. The girl's ghost is haunting the place to this day and smells of jasmine]]. In present day, there's [[PlotParallel also]] [[spoiler:her own almost-marriage with Czeremcha, years ago, whom she isn't [[WomanScorned really ready to forgive]] until the end of the movie.]]

* MundaneSolution: Natasza restores the paintings with chemicals (that's her job) and discusses with father Kleofas the relative virtues of this versus the miracle that would to renew both the paintings and the people.

* ShownTheirWork: Natasza's lectures on perfumery are correct and plot-relevant. The Latin, on the other hand, could be better - ''sunt'' means "were", plural.

[[caption-width-right:320:[[CatchPhrase What you're wondering at?]]]]

* {{Catchphrase}}: Eugenia often says "Co się dziwisz?" [[labelnote:translation]]What you're wondering at?[[/labelnote]]

* AltumVidetur: Plot significant information is found in Latin inscriptions in the monastery. Natasza takes the hint, but Kleofas doesn't.

* MagicalRealism: Apart from all the {{alchemy}}, [[spoiler: his [[PatronSaint favourite saint]] Roch makes an appearance to wash Zdrówko's feet, since he's a new saint]] - also to [[{{Bathos}} complain about birds pooping on his statue]]. Although this was AllJustADream. [[spoiler: But Zdrówko later gets ''stigmata'']], so the dream was prophetic at the very least.

* {{Alchemy}}: Natasza is (apart from her job as art restorer) an alchemist, specialising in perfumes with magical qualities (she's brought a lot of chemical glassware with her).

* LoveIsACrapshoot: Patrycja's love life in a nutshell. Until Natasza gets her LovePotion right.

* [[RunawayBride Runaway Groom]]: How Natasza became BrokenBird. [[spoiler: Czeremcha left her standing at the altar. Her mother, who came from the hospital to her wedding, died a couple of days afterwards and Natasza was left on her own.]] He says it wasn't a case of cold feet, not entirely.

* StarCrossedLovers: ''Ille sunt domus, ego sum pectus, tu nos connectus'' [[labelnote:translation]]He is the house, I am the heart, you will connect us[[/labelnote]]. Natasza investigates and it turns out the first Czeremcha was [[spoiler: a rich nobleman's son [[InterClassRomance in love]] with an ImpoverishedPatrician's daughter, which cause him to get LockedAwayInAMonastery. The girl's ghost is haunting the place to this day and smells of jasmine]]. In present day, there's [[PlotParallel also]] [[spoiler: her own almost-marriage with Czeremcha, years ago, whom she isn't [[WomanScorned really ready to forgive]] until the end of the movie.]]

* WomanScorned: [[spoiler: Natasza admits that her real reason for coming to Jaśminowo was to find and confront the man who left her at the altar - Czeremcha.]]

* ICantBelieveItsNotHeroin: Patrycja the hair-dresser is addicted to Czeremcha's love-inducing smell (she says it makes her a better person). Natasza, wants to work out just why. [[spoiler: She gets over it after finding real love.]]

* LegacyCharacter: To gain fragrance and holiness of the first three Śliwa, Czeremcha and Czereśnia, monks take up their names and come to their crypt to pray at their coffins (the three saints died in sixteenth century). Natasza is dissappointed to find she can't get the heart of the fragrance there. [[spoiler: But she does find an important clue]].

* LovePotion: Things that carry the smell of czeremcha [[spoiler: or jaśmin]] grant happiness in love, at least after Natasza's worked her magic. Unusually for the trope, the perfected love perfume works on both the wearer and the person the wearer wanted to seduce, producing reciprocal love.

* ShownTheirWork: Natasza's lectures on perfumery are correct and plot-relevant.

* YourFavourite: Brother Czereśnia will only be bribed by an antonówka (a variety of apple), although Zdrówko gives him a much sweeter [=McIntosh=], [[BlatantLies saying]] it's an antonówka, and he takes it.

* FriendToAllLivingThings: Zdrówko, if he [[ServileSnarker grumbles about it]]. He feeds animals first, then men, then himself. His favourite saint for complaining to appears to be Roch, the patron of sick animals. Apart from him, Czeremcha keeps adorable fluffy ducklings, and Czereśnia takes such pains not to step on ants that he trips and drops a statue.

* TheHermit: It's a sequestered monastery, which means a bunch of hermits living alongside.
* HiddenInPlainSight: [[spoiler: The prophesied saint in the monastery is Zdrówko, but father Kleofas ''really''can't take a hint.]]

* MagicalRealism: Apart from all the {{alchemy}}, [[spoiler: his [[PatronSaint favourite saint]] Roch makes an appearance to wash Zdrówko's feet, since he's a new saint]] - also to [[{{Bathos}} complain about birds pooping on his statue]]. Although this was a AllJustADream. [[spoiler: But Zdrówko later gets ''stigmata'']], so the dream was prophetic at the very least.

* ScienceIsUseless: PlayedWith. Father Kleofas uses science (calculations and tracking their movements) to determine which of the fragrant monks will be the saint - and he fails, but [[spoiler: only just - his chart, when held to sunlight against a particular Latin inscription, allows to [[TheBookCipher read the words]] that name the saint as Sanitas - Zdrówko. Kleofas simply doesn't read it all.]] Meanwhile, Natasza does restore the paintings mundanely, but can't find what she needs to create the perfect LovePotion until [[spoiler: the StarCrossedLovers are reunited]]. So, while science isn't actually useless, there are things it just can't do.

* Catchphrase: Eugenia often says "Co się dziwisz?" [[labelnote:translation]]What you're wondering at?[[/labelnote]]

* Foreshadowing: "Brother [[spoiler:Zdrówko]], you're the real saint here."