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".
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。
以为是老电影，原来是2022的。后劲很足，看过之后感觉挥之不去，迷惘伤感，又带着一些些希望。最美的是懵懂的青春期的少男少女。疲惫憔悴的女主，看似虚弱但并没有被生活打败，觉得眼熟，原来就是很多年前看过的性瘾者！那时的她可是年轻而疯狂的
80年代的巴黎，一切是崭新的，一切都在变动，人们有挣扎、有痛苦，无限迷茫，但也充满希望和可能性。这种氛围，十几二十年前在这片土地上，我也感受过
出现，消失，生命中的奇遇就是这样不可控制，剩下的，就是平凡。当然了，那份美好值得珍视，可惜现实世界不会给这样一个家庭这么美好的过程和结局。PS：要是画幅能统一就更好了。
这是我喜欢的法国电影。静谧的夜晚，淡淡的忧伤，破碎的婚姻却充满力量的从低谷走出来，还能帮助感染另一个小姑娘。法式的浪漫优雅，美人叼只烟，温柔而坚定的信念，那些有质感复古的画面，浪漫动听的旋律，在这样的夕阳余晖，夜晚灯下，第一缕晨光，循环往复，日子一天天的幸福而美好。
一流的色调摄影配乐
法语的每个单词都粘在一起了 说出来全是浪漫调调
灵魂有时候会破碎 有时候被治愈 小心翼翼的同时恣意妄为的探寻着属于自己的路
78/100 #EFM# 有一些“低清私影像”，将档案片段巧妙地缝在其中，也总有一些时间上的跳转。片刻细腻，总能找到轻盈又深沉的忧郁情绪。人们不缺爱，但从不会停留。仿佛唤起了过去的巴黎的一段时光。
好温柔的电影，满满对80年代的怀旧，全片沉浸在暖色调的朦胧中，大时代的变迁看似一笔带过，但作为影片灵魂的塔露拉正是从方方面面代表了左派浸入现代法国人的生活，不过她的不羁与自由，也沉湎于导演极力烘托的单身母亲一家的暖色中，导演相信美好可以治愈生命的苦痛，即使是时代变革，也需要温柔注脚。卡司方面影片丢出两记重磅，甘斯布与贝阿各有千秋，贝阿最后一个镜头回头的眼神就能道出她角色的一生，当年的法兰西花瓶早已成为演技派，甘斯布的表演更是炉火纯青，她的状态过分自然，自然到比苏菲玛索更能代表法国女性的魅力。这部电影最大的问题就是它太不“法国”了，它太抒情，从故事到配乐，八毫米胶片的插入更似对过去巴黎的怀旧，意义不大，结尾倒是非常法式，令人徒留惆怅。影片与《圆月映花都》从卡司到情绪的互文，也让我十分喜爱。
不推荐，寡淡如水，女二出现在这个家里，才变得分外热闹了
一流的色调摄影配乐
是一部電影，更是一封信，一封從現在寄回1981年的信，這封信是後來活出了自己的精彩後的伊麗莎白寄回1981年的自己的情書，是不可磨滅的記憶，是時空的碰撞。
从开头就被soundtrack深深吸引。印象最深的一幕是儿子骑车载着Elizabeth，笑着说他之前不愿谈论的事。
反抗，不就是一死吗
失眠的夜点开一半的时候决定快进看完。 真是一部不愠不火的片子。
#EFM22 给了我温柔一击，原声可太好听了，全员表演在线真就是很舒服的观感
@Berlinale72首映 难得在柏林的主竞赛单元看到这么温暖向的片子（后面又看了Alcarras），像一封给80年代巴黎的情书，困难与痛苦都处理得温柔轻盈。夏洛特·甘斯布毫不费力地就演活了一个从迷茫到重新发现生活的中年离异女性，小女主太灵动可爱。结尾Et Si Tu N'Existais Pas的旋律响起时，忍不住会心一笑，跟着轻轻哼唱。
失眠的夜里，倾听声波来信。有夜旅人在黑暗中走来。插入私人影像。循着故事，坠入梦里，下沉到太阳再次升起。
虽然不是那么从容，不加修饰，但总归也是有诗性与宁静在的，不错。
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