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".
我的天看完巨上头，除了铺垫有点长，另一位女主出场后太好看了。沙滩的亲密戏太美了。女主让我想起了年轻（？）时的自己，热情到没头没脑，在感情中喜欢“强求”——然而看看电影吧朋友们，这样的“强求”才能获得/延长幸福，理智的大人们只会流着泪离开。
这种题材只有放在法国人身上才那么自然和浑然天成。
同性线有点着急啊，想要暧昧场景多一点，明晃晃的性爱场景少一点。倒是结尾valerie说自己不能接受婚外情，是个一语双关的妙点。
爱情是盛开的花朵，灿烂，热烈。阿娜伊斯是个对爱明确，享受炽热当下的女生。谁都会被热烈吸引，难以抗拒。
长镜头带出的法国街景，海边美景，还有片子里明亮的色调，看了让人真是舒服。
《首演之夜》
为什么又又又又又又是LGBT? 还以为是小女生的随性生活，还蛮有趣的，但是为什么拐着弯又跑到那个神奇的路线去了？而且还是一个小女生把把人家一家夫妻俩个都搞上了，更加不可思议的是居然看起来还很清新浪漫，毫无违和感，这就不得不说法国人在某些方面的特殊能力了！
爱情和生活往往是脱离的，过起日子时到处是问题。
阿娜伊思跑起来的时候，总是会拍到她漂亮的鞋子，然后古典的背景音乐响起来。
极强的处女作，成熟，面面俱到，深浅相间，持续关注。
法国的电影为什么都这么絮絮叨叨哈哈哈哈大部分的情节和冲突都是靠对话来完成的。
真是个想到什么马上就做什么的姑娘 没有一点犹豫和计划 红色短裙的热情 勇敢 大胆
海风微咸，舌尖品尝着阳光的灼热，红唇亲吻着沙滩，耳边听着浪花翻涌，爱欲发生在夏天。
当影片结尾作家侃侃而谈时，我以为女主终于遇到了命里克星，“都是千年的狐狸”，老狐狸拿捏了小狐狸，但最后一分钟居然反转，小狐狸吃定了老狐狸。
《阿娜伊斯的爱情》，唉，女人好无聊啊，除了青春和爱，好像别的都没有意义了一样。也只有法国那种语境下才有这样的片子。法国人真是喜欢挥霍的人群，挥霍自由、青春和不负责任，以人人都有“追求爱的权利”之名。
m2229：不同意又如何，最后不过多一场幻想。终究面对生活。继续流着伤心的泪。
这姑娘也太闹腾了，她有她自己的一套规则，她主动，虽然看起来傻白甜但实际上知道自己想要什么。 男人应该会受不了她，但女人不一定。她以身作则示范了摆脱传统男性凝视，成为独立自主的女性的一种可能性。 她这样会很快乐，但和女作家的关系不一定会热烈持久到底。可这对她来说又算得了什么呢？我想她即便有点不够成熟，但她是那种能很好的自己处理未来生活里的问题的人，并因此成长。这是妥妥的一部Feminism电影。
现在满脑子都是年下妹妹穿着红裙子跑来跑去的画面。
一部柔软湿润胆大又羞涩的典型法国情爱故事。总有一个声音在耳边低语：明天你可能就挂了，好好他妈的专注当下吧！
7.5/10 画面和情节处理得很大胆，有个人色彩在里面。
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