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".
温情的法国家庭片，挺好的吧，感觉中规中矩，可能没有打动我的点吧。音乐很喜欢，喜欢这种80年代的音乐。
法国人独有的浪漫和松弛，离婚没有抚养费需要搬家和子女分开，明明都是人生难过的课题，却没有那些满地鸡毛的感觉，唯有静淌淌的日常时光。
在巴黎拍的电影我都愿意看！上世纪80年代的巴黎的夜啊，是radio france，是夜场电影，也是塞纳河的波光粼粼。好喜欢她家的落地窗，爬上天台还可以俯瞰巴黎。最后的插曲Si tu n’existes pas，熟悉的旋律。或许，我们都只是巴黎的匆匆passagers（他们竟然会从15or16区去Escurial看电影诶一定是真爱了哈哈！准备补侯麦！）
独自离婚带娃，过乳腺癌切除手术，前夫拒付孩子抚养费——家庭主妇被迫重新进入社会工作，拿着微薄的薪水。貌似体面的中产却也只是期待爱情的平凡人，笨拙亦真诚地应对生活的艰难。电影的节奏掌握得非常好，沉郁的现实底色上漂浮着轻盈乐观的感性与情绪。夜晚的塞纳河，清晨的高层建筑，导演去掉了巴黎那种傲慢，轻浮和mean的装饰，仿佛在顶层阳台俯瞰夜晚城市一刻身边奏响的舒适婉转的夜曲。
温柔的就像塞纳河的夜一样，多彩的暖色调浅浅的晕开，自然而又美丽。女神还是女神，迷的挪不开眼。
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。
不推荐，寡淡如水，女二出现在这个家里，才变得分外热闹了
独自离婚带娃，过乳腺癌切除手术，前夫拒付孩子抚养费——家庭主妇被迫重新进入社会工作，拿着微薄的薪水。貌似体面的中产却也只是期待爱情的平凡人，笨拙亦真诚地应对生活的艰难。电影的节奏掌握得非常好，沉郁的现实底色上漂浮着轻盈乐观的感性与情绪。夜晚的塞纳河，清晨的高层建筑，导演去掉了巴黎那种傲慢，轻浮和mean的装饰，仿佛在顶层阳台俯瞰夜晚城市一刻身边奏响的舒适婉转的夜曲。
侯麦浓度相当高，也有很多感人的段落，但是结构松散，怀旧没有深度，人设方法让人一言难尽，造型上不区分时间节点，每一秒都担心夏洛特甘斯布重回亚文化
在一對中年情侶面前談論像嬰兒一樣脆弱的十九歲流浪少女時感覺很奇妙。歐吉爾故事竟貫穿了全片我好感動。出現里維特是我沒想到的🥺看到最後會覺得這是寫給巴黎的一封情書啊。我決定推薦我媽去看這部電影了。
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。
这个世界总是会陷入得与失的循环，无论得失，时间从不回头，生活还要继续。
抚慰了最近的我。生活都不容易，不过生活最美丽的还是生活本身，如晚饭后的共舞，如草坪上的欢笑。不过这又让我回想起2020年疫情刚缓和，与朋友们无忧无虑地腻在一起的时光，每天早上起床的第一件事便是讨论今天去哪儿，这样的日子估计真的是一去不复返了。过完这段日子去他们的城市找他们玩吧。
看完只能朴素地说一句，太好看了！居然是22年的片子，在这个到处都在恐婚恐育的年代，这部电影让我知道离婚不可怕、养娃不可怕、找工作不可怕、孩子叛逆也不可怕。我从来没见过的巴黎的样子，真是太美了，在郊区的高层里四人跳舞的画面太美了。生活的苦难是真实的，但也终会有治愈我们的事情。（wa
转角大窗户可太美了。白天晚上都美。女主就是那种表面上问题一大堆，很脆弱，易受伤害，然而问题都能柳暗花明，塞翁失马，遇人都淑，只要对生活轻言细语，就绝不会遭遇生活真正的铁拳，的幸运鹅啊！
细碎的生活日常，仿佛只是个流水帐，初看会没什么感觉，可是涓涓细流最终汇聚成一股暖流，就像不经意间的亲情与友情或者爱情的关怀，在每一个孤独的夜晚，仿佛午夜电台的温馨话语，抚慰每一个孤独的灵魂，最终暖心到让人止不住落泪。
不是忘了怎么回答，是有些春光早逝在了燃情
生活一如河水里那破碎浮动的月光，但终有回归平静的时刻。时光在逝去，有遗憾有错过有收获。
善良又美丽的一家人，喜怒哀乐，悲欢离合，没有大起大落，只是随着时间各自向前。夹杂了大量的复古镜头，不知道是用的老胶片，还是新技术故意做旧的，总之很有味道。刚看到开头的几个场景，就觉得好像侯麦啊。谁知道后面还真的有《月圆映花都》的片段。好喜欢电影原声，有种缓缓流淌的情绪，静谧而舒服。甘斯布好温柔好优雅，没想到还能看到艾曼纽·贝阿，她倒是挺A的！
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