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".
熟睡的城市，流动的车辆，还有独自徘徊着的人们啊，给自己唱一曲Lullaby，再做个长久的美梦吧。
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。
在我看来，电影里的悲伤故事，是那么的令人嫉妒
再多糟糕透顶的生活也还不过是在时间的长河中被揉碎，在这么荒诞的一天看这么一部温情的电影，生活中真的太缺少那些让人值得去执着的事了，坍塌的日子也要努力留给自己一些安宁吧。OST很好，曲子值得找来一听在听，张弛间似乎也能感受到呼吸的空隙，那些时间空白格。
B— / 柔软的像午夜电台一样，观众为穿梭的旅人，对于八十年代的回溯不仅是场景发生的时间背景，朦胧的影像质感，适时的音乐，粗糙而变换的复古切片等形式上的变换，都在试图召回这种怀旧情绪，召回对城市的情感。
很舒服的男导视角女性主体的故事，顺便拉踩《世界上最糟糕的人》。剧中大部分4：3用了当时的视频资料，调色也接近当年的色调，按照国内电影分类算是妥妥的怀旧故事。不像《少年时代》那样用一个少年的成长，把那段历史里的点滴记录下来，而是把一个家庭，几个人的故事融在那段时代里。也不像《少年时代》是一个轻喜剧，虽然是彻彻底底正能量大团圆的结局，但是因为调色音乐和影片情绪，可能不应该在下雨天的冬日傍晚，不开灯开这部电影，我现在有点抑郁了T_T PS：三星在我这里可不是差评，只是觉得达不到4星
生活最终不像我们预期的那样，但我们还是尽力去爱了，不是吗?
深蓝色的夜幕、天台上梦幻乐园般的柔光、八零年代质感的巴黎日间街景和音乐，带出光影下的生活碎片，还有人物情节情绪流动。是人生的过客还是常客并不重要，只要在那一刻拥有“有你们在场的快乐”，非常抚慰人心。夏洛特甘斯布的角色和她的声音，柔软敏感细腻包容，太迷人。
悠扬且治愈，岁月舔食着创伤！来自于家庭的温暖与理解，度过了巴黎寒冷的夜！我们都是生命的旅人，这段旅程用怀念来填补痛苦与失意！
怀旧迷人 一切都刚刚好。甘斯布女神气质太棒太迷人了
心与心的靠近
“天地如逆旅，我亦是行人。”又一部让我对巴黎产生向往之情的电影。甘斯布好美啊。虽然还是在讲怀旧和迷影情怀，但用得不让人厌烦。音效让人印象深刻。
一部非常稳扎稳打的温情家庭片，细腻却不细碎，人物的状态都出奇地相称，节奏上没有一丝拖沓。甘斯布绝美的气质惊艳了整部电影，柔和却恰如其分的表演让影片的发展沿着不变的轨道前进。可与引用的侯麦电影比却少了些自如，配乐的大量使用有些取巧，以及一些情节的设计感有点浓，略显刻意
在南昌站候车时看完。在广州时把耳机弄丢了，这段时间一直用着邵推荐的不到十块钱的廉价耳机，在地铁上会担心吵到别人那种，不过也没啥。看电影的时候站里不间断广播着，有音乐的地方只能用手指盖住耳朵，听得清楚点，可能浪费这部电影的音乐了吧。
我们都是旅人 在路上 改变 生活 同时是 有关巴黎的
真的非常·没意思。甘斯布的角色依旧是悬浮的，就算住在13区的HLM里，还是如梦似幻的巴黎女人。想要诗化巴黎，好呀，但别为了怀旧而诗化。
写出这个故事的人真的好爱生活啊，爱生活什么时候变成一种能力了…
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。
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
暖暖的温情，那个小美女原来就是《坠雪少女》啊
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