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".
不是忘了怎么回答，是有些春光早逝在了燃情
本来甘斯布要来现场的，结果因为档期耍了我们，导演倒是识趣，知道我们不在乎他，随便露个脸就走了。
对家庭 对社会 对曾经 对未来…对电影 满满的爱。动人！
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。
转变画幅与胶片质感模糊时间，永恒的巴黎夜色下人们的不安躁动才是流淌的一环。坠入冰冷的河水，药物弥散在大脑中，身躯无处隐蔽，被抛弃，被忽视，被压抑。却仍然可以去看《鸟人》，去看侯麦的新片。和关于杜拉斯，李维特的一切。那是最坏的时代，也是最好的时代。
3.5。光影、色彩确实养眼，看到后二十分钟时候才等到一点点能打动我的地方，奶油焦糖和Joe Dassin的音乐，四个人抱团取暖互相安慰。整个片子看下来也好但又没那么好。不过可太想去这个有那么大一扇推拉窗的屋子里住一住，然后夜夜不开灯对着外面的法式霓虹夜景痴望，点燃一根香烟静静吞云吐雾。
不知道为什么被无法挽回地打动了，可能是万花筒一样的时光碎片散漫平凡但有光、八十年代的颗粒感、不合时宜的深夜电台和电影院、迷雾般醉人的音乐、这么多年过去了依旧柔韧如初的夏洛特甘斯布和艾曼妞贝阿、青春和年龄的褶皱被黄油一般抹平。有电影真好，就像十几年前感受到得那样。
碎片的巴黎印象，“巴黎我爱你”。我也爱巴黎。
正是那些温暖的碎片，给了我们前行的力量。或许不持久，但拥有过就足够啦。
与80年代巴黎那些可爱的人们共同渡过一段梦幻旅途。抽身之后已顾不得这究竟是实写历史还是又一个平行宇宙，只是好想哭。
在黑暗里看这部影片实在是很有触动。巴黎的夜景，瞬间的情动，孤独的天台秘密。想起我的高中，躲掉吃饭的时间在教室里听电台，还有无数个我刻意和被迫成为旅人的孤单。好想去巴黎看夜景抽烟喝酒。法国人，一个用脚拍也能拍出三星好评的国度。
分不清年代感，像在看二十几年前拍的电影。最近看过的最能称之为「电影」的电影。
我的女神基本上都出产与法国，阿佳妮，苏菲玛索，甘斯布。他们的美，游离于性感与知性之间。不同年龄段都能展现出恰到好处的美，这种魅力是很神奇的，有点法国特有的意思
夏洛特真的和小时候长得一模一样，我真的想在电影里看她和女人上次床。
米夏埃尔真是继承了一套美式抒情招式。将美国小清新故事放置到巴黎的语境之下不知为何总是显得脱轨。
“会有别人眼中的我们，那些碎片，那些我们曾以为瞥见的，我们的碎片，会由我们的梦来滋养。我们从来都不是相同的，每一次，我们都只是外来者，是夜旅人，是他们的想像，就像被留在房间里的旧镜子上的，那些脆弱的阴影。”
有点捋不清叙事顺序了，也好，梦本来就这样。
是為了隱隱顯露男女主之間的青澀情感所以選了侯麥尺度最大的一部電影麽哈哈哈。難得看一部這麽極致浪漫的巴黎青春電影啊，像回到阿黛爾那時一樣，不是約炮軟件和網絡世界堆砌出來的賽博交友，只是兩個人爬上天台在巴黎夜色中俯瞰整座城市靜靜抽著煙，多美好啊，脫去成年世界的一份沉重。看這部電影好像在看我媽的故事，而這些軌跡又好像包括了我自己在內。裡面的房子簡直是我的夢中情房！！
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。
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。
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