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".
啊，喜欢...我承认自己很吃这套怀旧手法，80年代，胶片闪回。主观喜欢的电影都是因为它带来了“联系”。一开头的巴黎地图就想到了《马克斯与拾荒者》，电影院放映着《圆月映花都》，街景和散步的感觉很像《宠坏的孩子》，还有里维特，它让我的脑海中观看的记忆一部部地也浮现了出来。电影院、广播台和图书馆，梦之场所。Charlotte Gainsbourg好美，和在《科学睡眠》里完全没有变化，有些脆弱又坚定，说话轻轻柔柔的简直像Jane Birkin..依旧是时尚master。就是一部很清新的片子，会很想跟爱的人一起看。配乐超好，音乐像被风吹起的透明纱帘，柔柔地，好好听啊，去找原声了...
看的時候不以為然，看完之後好難過。追思那個時代，那個地點，幾個人的生活。著墨不深，點到就好。「我好像沒辦法正常地生活」「我只有不斷從一個地方到另一個地方，才能感覺稍微好一點」才能感覺到活著。 @2022-06-18 20:01:54
连看了三部米夏埃尔的作品，皆是一流的摄影和色彩，音乐品味也很不错，总能把一些漫不经心的日常小事，拍出轻盈浪漫的文艺感，在慢悠悠的节奏里，注入深沉浓烈的情绪，慰藉而治愈，脱离了此类片子极容易陷入的无病呻吟的小资趣味，美的精致而充实。非常喜欢。
感情特别真挚，我看哭了，不好意思嗷。
有动人之处，有滑入梦幻时代的迷醉气质。但也就一瞬
3.6 一种由圆月映花都、北方的桥、旧影像、随机闯入的陌生麻烦、深爱的回忆、莫名的家人治愈组成的淡淡的氛围吧。甘小姐拥有少数迷人气质。看到百分之十的审计小姐姐一个亲切的跳戏。感谢神通豆友，没有你们我可怎么活（夸张）！
家庭里的每个人都有自己的小世界与能量，但彼此的心又是能够保持开放与连接的
零碎的影像记忆，他们的突然离开就像他们的突然到来。
难得这样一部没有任何说教目的却将生活中的重点勾勒出来，没有波澜起伏的爱情表达却将情感世界描绘到位的电影。生活的未知，是生活的底色，“走着瞧”，或许是更理智的态度。选择前进的妈妈，选择飞翔的女儿，选择守护的儿子，选择远行的女孩，大家都用自己的方式去让别人拥有温暖，很触动人。
穿插着当年的影像画面剪辑在电影中，更添一种忆往昔的感觉。而且，我超级喜欢导演给平凡的生活配以情绪高昂的音乐，这简直打动了我的内心最深处！想来导演也是理想化的人吧。(餐桌上那首音乐我想我会永远记得~)
#3742看过。这才叫「文艺片」。像一颗蓝色的玻璃糖果，没有甜味，却美得晶莹。我铆足了劲想要逃离现在的生活，突然我爱了很久的人喊我的名字。停下，回头，温柔荡漾。 想立马打开《巴黎的忧郁》，听波德莱尔念一首破碎的诗。
法国文艺片，离异女带着眼袋乱着头发努力应对着世界，也一眼看得出的力不从心，和朋友聊天“有时候我恐慌症发作没带着书就读票根的注意事项”果然是毛姆说的“书是随身携带的避难所”，大家就这样诚实地淡淡地谈天就仿佛感觉生活不那么糟，还有结结实实的拥抱～
还是要去爱，为了会到来的分离，这些分离构成我们生命中所有的黑色废墟，借以游荡继续向前走去
8.2 这部治愈系的法式生活流小清新让我看得蛮舒服，导演还用了复古影调来营造影片的怀旧质感，有点想法。这个中也有导演对法国新浪潮前辈的致敬，更抒发了他对电影的情怀，生活流叙事，简明朴实，自然流畅，人文关怀也倾注了不少，再有适量温馨治愈的配乐加持，全片看下来，就如饮下了一杯热可可，既温暖又甘醇。另外，已逾半百之年的夏洛特•甘斯布魅力亦丝毫不减，然该片美中不足之处，则在于稍缺新意，不过总体值得观看。
有一种温暖的东西是永存的，时间无法使它停止。比如骑着电动车载母亲，载女朋友，一家人听着音乐抱在一起跳舞。母亲演得好，让治愈的故事立住了。时不时插进的4比3 dv视角也挺有意思的，“我们在别人的碎片里”。女生与巴黎的溶接，大家同是巴黎夜旅人。迷影情节，本身是影迷，然后两次看《圆月映花都》
像一封写给巴黎，写给电影的情书。女主太美了，故事简单动人，看过意犹未尽
生活里重要的究竟是什么呢？成长、反思、个性、正义？还是享乐？到最后唯一能让人感到慰藉的只有善良和爱，其他的一切好像只是为了让人在短暂的一生中有事可做。
是个温暖的导演；偷偷溜进影厅看[圆月映花都]&那句包含“似曾相识”的台词；好多十五区的空镜头
不好说氛围营造的手法是否算讨巧，但情境来源于种种故事型，细节恰恰在被拉远的时间里模糊了。喜欢Talulah临近结尾睡醒后流泪那段，它证明了美好的回忆同样也是疼痛的回忆。
治愈细腻的小品，配乐舒适，富有生活小细节。在诺大的城市中，我们何尝不都是旅人。互相相遇，建立联系，靠着彼此的陪伴同行一段旅途，而后不可避免地，留下了一些纪念品后，便是匆匆离别，继续走向下一段旅程。如果有缘便还便不会再见。
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