Martin (John Amplas), a young man who looks around 20-years-old, boards a train in Indianapolis, Indiana for New York. At night, he breaks into a sleeping car and sedates a woman with a syringe full of narcotics. She struggles, but he tells her not to struggle or be upset because she wont feel pain. After a few minutes, the woman falls asleep, and Martin has sex with the unconscious woman. Afterwards, he slices her wrists with a razor blade so he can drink her blood. The woman bleeds to death in her sleep.
In the morning, the train stops in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania where Martin disembarks. He is met by Tata Cuda (Lincoln Maazel) an elderly and hostile old man who claims to be his cousin from the Old World. Together, they travel by another train to the town of Braddock, a dying industrial suburb. They walk to Cuda's large house where he shows Martin his living quarters. Cuda then accuses Martin of being an 84-year-old vampire from his old country. He has taken in Martin because he is family, but tells him, "First I will save your soul. Then I shall destroy you." Martin denies being a vampire and implies that Cuda is merely his uncle rather than his cousin. Cuda then puts up strings of garlic on the doors to his and his granddaughter's room, and then holds up a small cross when Martin approaches him. Martin takes away the cross, and even takes a bite of the garlic mocking these attempts by saying bitterly, "There's no real magic... ever". Cuda tells Martin that he can come and go as he pleases. But he also warns Martin that he will kill him if he kills anyone in Braddock. He also tells Martin to stay away from his granddaughter Christine (Christine Forrest), whom arrives home from her job that evening.
Cuda introduces Christine to Martin, but also warns her to stay away from him. But Christine instead strikes up a friendship with Martin who confides in her about his vampire heritage. When Cuda later confirms Martin's claims to be a vampire, Christine, not surprisingly, refuses to believe either one. She thinks that Cuda and the other members of her family have driven Martin to insanity by making him think that he is a vampire. It is never revealed if Martin really is a vampire, or just a shy and lonely youth with troubled issues. Christine is the only person that Martin gets the courage to talk to. When Christine's boyfriend Arthur (Tom Savini) arrives at the house for dinner, Martin stops talking and backs away despite Arthur's attempt at a conversation. Christine later confides in Martin that she hopes to leave Braddock someday with Arthur, even though Martin points out that Arthur treats her badly and is both verbally and physically abusive towards her.
When Christine sees that Martin won't talk to anyone else, she buys him a phone which he installs in his room. Martin begins to repeatingly call a radio talk show where he describes what it's like to be a vampire. He becomes known on the radio as "the Count" to all the listeners. But the patronizing host (Michael Gornick) thinks he's just crazy.
Martin gets a job at Cuda's grocery store of stocking shelves, hauling boxes around, and even gets to be a delivery boy for some of the customers. One of his customers is a certain Abby Santini (Elyane Nadeau), who becomes taken in with Martin. She is a very friendly young woman who is depressed when she tells Martin that her husband is unfaithful. But Martin still does not have the nerve to talk with her, so she is happy to have someone to confide in with her life problems. Martin phones the radio show host to describe his infatuation with the housewife and senses that she wants to have sex with him. When the radio show host asks Martin if it is a sexual problem that he has involving women criticizing him during sex, Martin replies that he has never had sex with a woman who was awake.
One day, Martin travels by train to outside Braddock to look for victims. At a supermarket, he follows a young woman (Sarah Venable) home to her posh suburban house. He sees the woman's husband (Richard Rubenstein) leave for a long business trip, and Martin decides this would be the right time for more feeding. Martin returns to the house after dark and breaks in through the garage door. But it is Martin who gets the surprise when he bursts into her bedroom to find her in bed with her adulterous lover Lewis (Al Levitsky). After a vicious struggle, Martin jabs both of them with hyprodermic needles with narcotics, and waits for the drugs to take affect. He drags the unconscious body of Lewis from the house to a clump of trees across the street where he kills him by shoving a broken tree branch into his neck and drinks his blood. Martin returns to the house where he has sex with the unconscious woman. But out of compassion and pity, he decides to let her live.
Martin begins to have romantic monochrome visions of his vampire past (real or imagined), where he drained blood from a young woman and was chased through the streets of a nameless European town by a torch-lit mob.
During one Sunday at church, Cuda brings home Father Howard (George A. Romero) who asks him about the possibility of exorcism and demon possession. Father Howard calls upon the elderly Father Zulemans (Clifford Forrest, Jr.) over at Cuda's request. Together, Cuda and Zulemans confront Martin his bedroom and attempt to perform an exorcism on him. At this point, Martin remembers (another real or imaginary flashback), in the Old Country of people trying to perform an exorcism on him, and he flees them. Martin then flees from Cuda and Zuelmas as well. A little later that night, Martin terrorizes Cuda in a children's playground when he puts on a Dracula cape and puts false fangs into his mouth to pretend that he really is a vampire.
One day, Martin finally musters the courage to talk with Mrs. Santini during a routine delivery to her house where he tells her that he's aware of her attempts to seduce him and wants now to have sex with her. After having sex for the first time, Mrs. Santini becomes more depressed for she tells Martin that her husband just left her because she discovered that she cannot bear children, and that her desires towards him are based on sex and nothing else. But Martin wants to stay with her and help her move on with her life. Martin tells the radio show host about his affair with the housewife and that he no longer has the urge to attack other women.
Meanwhile, Arthur meets with Cuda and tells him that he wants Christine to leave town with him so they can get married and start a family. But Christine becomes angry at Cuda when he tells Arthur that insanity runs in their family and he shouldn't consider having children with her. Shortly afterwards, Christine packs up and leaves Braddock for New York with Arthur despite Martin telling her that Arthur is abusive towards her. But her mind is made up. Before leaving, Christine tells Martin that she really has no ill feelings towards him and just wants to make a fresh start with her life. She says goodbye to him and promises to write. But Martin knows that with an abusive and possessive man in Christine's life, she probably won't.
Depressed over losing his one true friend, Martin phones the radio show host and tells him that he's getting "shaky" and wants to go out looking for more victims. That night, Martin travels to a rough crime-ridden area of Pittsburgh and attacks two derelicts in a alley, injecting them with narcotics. He kills one of them by silting the bum's wrist and drinking his blood. Martin is about to kill the second one when a police car shows up and gives chase. Martin narrowly escapes during a long chase on foot which leads from the garbage strew streets and through a local store. Martin runs into an old warehouse where a drug deal is going down. A shootout between the two cops and the three thugs begins where all of them are killed, leaving Martin as the sole survivor who casually walks away from the carnage.
One day, Martin finds Mrs. Santini dead in her bathtub, after she had slit her writs with a razor blade. Martin anonymously calls the police to report the body and leaves. He phones the radio show host one final time to say that he really doesn't need friends or people to talk to for he is his own person. But when Cuda learns about Mrs. Santini's suicide, is mistakenly thinks Martin killed her and made it look like a suicide as he's done before. Cuda walks into Martin's room while he is asleep and kills him by hammering a wooden stake through Martin's heart.
Cuda buries Martin's body in his back garden, while over the closing credits various voices from people are heard talking to the radio show host asking the whereabouts of "the Count".
7. 如何在那么窘迫的情况下保持爱和包容，怜悯，确实是件很难的事，或许天然的淳朴可以，很强的价值观也可以。本片给人从容的淡定，可能是女主特有的魅力，当然导演的叙事也不错。
温和但略带忧郁的口吻，辛苦日子里找到的那些碎片的自我。
如果所有的听力都是Charlotte来读就好了
温暖、浪漫的巴黎人故事，一切都被加上了美好的滤镜，即使他们的遭遇并不完全是幸福的，也不妨碍观众在其中得到的抚慰。
巴黎的夜，是拂过的风，是静谧的河，是遥遥相望又触手可及的铁塔。是来了又走再回来的房客，是在一起就很快乐的小家。
悉尼电影节SFF第7场，我们是如此容易破碎，却又在爱里，在夜里，在电影里，一次又一次地完整。永远爱夏洛特·甘斯布，美丽永远不受任何限制，美丽永远不会因失去而失去。
他们的时间是流动的，我们的时间是7天、14天的块状物，他们即使生活艰难也没有失去安全感，而我们......
他们的时间是流动的，我们的时间是7天、14天的块状物，他们即使生活艰难也没有失去安全感，而我们......
非常温柔细腻
真好啊。伊丽莎白有母狮一般的温柔，好温暖。是啊，谁不想坐在摩托车后排把头靠在孩子的后背上，迎接风与今后的生活呢。
#Berlinale72nd# 4.5 与《阿曼达》着重于情绪的生长不同，更多是一种状态的描摹，在状态的捕捉中提炼出细腻的情绪，异质感由突然出现的人物提供，但在漫游间，情绪触感逐渐消融异质，使其与情境融于一体。既是巴黎的故事，也是个体的故事。
巴黎的夜，是拂过的风，是静谧的河，是遥遥相望又触手可及的铁塔。是来了又走再回来的房客，是在一起就很快乐的小家。
84/100，先給看過的其他一些降分，其次是法國片打分要求稍微高一點。就很靈動，節奏可以說滿分，從劇本到拍攝到剪輯和濾鏡空鏡頭調度就流暢得沒什麼好說的，韻到十足的味了，各個人物都還是會在不同時候讓人有代入感的，各方面都很成功。
淡蓝色的温柔 像甘斯布纤细的嗓音 “生活不是我们想象的那样 但我们也尽力去热爱了” 甘斯布真是美啊
才发现女主妈妈是女性y者的主演，这么一看电影剧情就连上了
法国电影的剧本还处于肌无力的时代。还没有重量级导演出现
谁会想到在2022年，还会有人拍得出如此「老派」的电影。像是一首在雨夜静静吟唱的散文诗般洗涤心灵，亦如塞纳河涓涓流淌的河水般静谧真挚，感人肺腑。色调、灯光、剪辑、配乐都极致复古，情欲戏的处理也充斥着80年代法国电影的独特调调。所有极致的美感透过镜头的柔光散发出别样魅力，流动的幻象搭配绝伦且不着痕迹的精彩演绎显得别样生辉。感谢这个迷离的雨夜，导演送给我的礼物，我收了。年度十佳候选。
第一次是偶然，第二次是巧合，第三次是宿命，感恩遇见
故事真无聊，被豆瓣高分骗了。本片主角是CG的头发，每条发丝都摇曳生姿，不是一般发型师能做出来的效果，使得CG虽老但依然非常美。儿子长得尖嘴猴腮的🐒
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