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".
夜色一样轻盈温柔地疗愈，女性和母亲的力量。
好喜欢影片的质感和配乐，Gainsbourg竟然已经在演两个孩子的妈了，但她真的好温柔。
“导演以一种在电影景观中脱颖而出的方式来尊重他们的脆弱和善良，这种方式更容易被幻想破灭的反英雄所吸引。这是电影最深刻的亲密和迷人，当我们反思我们作为一个社会的运作方式时，它让我们了解为什么爱很重要”
链接的碎片
晚安，夜旅人们。
我爬上烟囱 为了点上一根烟
谁不爱80年代，谁不爱巴黎，如此朦胧又温柔。
Si tu n’existais pas, dis -moi pourquoi j’existrais
Si tu n’existais pas, dis -moi pourquoi j’existrais
虽然很平，故事其实也没什么新意，但是！！整部片子的基调好温柔，好放松，遇到事儿纠结一下哭两下就顺其自然随遇而安的处事哲学太美好了，嘀咕一句ah bon生活会继续，也许不真实，也许只是刻意的侧重，那又如何呢？（私心请所有德国人每年去法国两天学习一下如何放松再回来哈）Gainsbourg真的太美了，越老越美。回家的路上一直在哼Dassin的si tu n'existais pas。。。另外看到Rivette的le pont du nord里的Bulle Ogier，刚好这次也出演Denis的avec amour et acharnement，Denis拍过Rivette的纪录片，还有Béart也是Rivette的la belle noiseuse的女主 #Berlinale72
【生活不是我想象的那样 但我尽力爱它了】我热泪盈眶
才发现女主妈妈是女性y者的主演，这么一看电影剧情就连上了
也想去八十年代的巴黎打通那个电话
想不到2022年的电影还可以有这么传统又温馨的剧情（整个片子都没有什么大情节，但好喜欢这个80s的流水账）。看完循环Joe Dassin。
Tallulah好灵啊。好正常的女主一家人（褒义），好舒缓的bgm好强的年代感
妈妈好美好美
3.5。美丽的80年代童话，覆以柔和的胶片质地。迪斯科舞厅、夜间电台、摩托与夜风、戏院里正上映侯麦新片、海报墙上挂着《德州巴黎》，你可能会在地铁上偶遇雅克·里维特…记忆如幻影，让迁徙的得以共存。“会有别人眼中的我们。那些碎片，我们曾以为瞥见的，我们的碎片，将由我们的梦来滋养。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，是他们的想象，就像被留在房间里的旧镜子上的，那些脆弱的阴影。”
没有歇斯底里，是非常平静的生活修补，甘斯布的状态可太好了，自然，松弛，夜色和情绪的流淌都很顺畅。
之夏
夜，是脆弱的栖息之所。夜色中，伤口也迷离。80年代的法国，左派胜利的欢欣，个体遭遇的不幸，都在低帧画面里变得恬淡了。导演说他希望把violence以让人容易接受（recevable)的方式呈现出来。女孩Talulah 看似残酷的选择——离开这个给予她温情的家庭和爱她男孩，也是一个自由又堕落的女孩能给的最好的温柔了。而影片中的三次性爱都着疗愈性：女人在遭遇爱情和工作挫折时与同事的短暂激情，男孩和女孩冒险之夜终于平息之时的难忘一夜，还有女人新的爱人抚摸了她胸口的伤疤……正如女主工作的午夜电台给听众带来的疗愈。夜之过客，与你互诉生命，舔舐伤口，给予勇气，却并不停留。
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