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".
Si tu n’existais pas, dis -moi pourquoi j’existrais
优秀，一部分治愈，一部分怀旧。叙事虽是截面，但是精炼高效，情绪始终是完整的，流动的，能够在全片的任何段落捕捉到甘斯布的情感状态，她对子女的关爱，对陌生人的善意，对爱情的向往，对生活饱含的热情，那些文艺的句子，插入的经典电影，以及八十年代的标志录像音乐风格，都使本片真挚动人。
家庭里的每个人都有自己的小世界与能量，但彼此的心又是能够保持开放与连接的
#Berlinale Competition# 《宝石长袍》看了半小时放弃了跑来看这个，真好看啊，气质特别迷人，一会就给代入进去了。温柔静谧的夜空，行色匆匆的旅人，80年代的巴黎，虽不曾至但心向往之。一个普通家庭、一个平凡女性和她周围人的故事就这样缓缓流淌，淡淡的轻轻的，所见之处尽是导演对历史还有电影的感伤怀旧，演员好，音乐品味也好，希望有大奖啊！最后妈妈送给孩子礼物那段直接看哭了，想起我妈妈以前也有写日记的习惯，她告诉我，在认识我爸之后，她发现记录的都是伤心的事情，于是就不再写了。我没有看过她的日记，也不敢看，或许是我还不够勇敢吧。想到这里，再看到电影里的情节，就情不自禁地感到难过。
柔光滤镜下醉人的巴黎，用复古格调和footage构造时代感，依旧有你的放下，去工作，去爱人，去再次生活，留住一位夜归人，留住一段即使会离开的感情，抚慰人心的电波，总有归属的家，好舒服好治愈
When I was young I listen to the radio
人物除了Gainsbourg都不太讨喜 没什么共鸣
链接的碎片
也许抓到了一些80s巴黎的神韵，但更多依赖于表层符号和技术手段来实现，故事则过分温柔、平滑到近乎失真，恍如听了首流水线制作的梦泡。
生活的下一页总是未知的，但我们仍要翻开下一页，而有一种真挚的东西是永存的，时间无法使它停止。塞纳河畔的夜色，化成极尽温柔的抚慰，是即使受伤也要自由追寻的灵魂。
以为是老电影，原来是2022的。后劲很足，看过之后感觉挥之不去，迷惘伤感，又带着一些些希望。最美的是懵懂的青春期的少男少女。疲惫憔悴的女主，看似虚弱但并没有被生活打败，觉得眼熟，原来就是很多年前看过的性瘾者！那时的她可是年轻而疯狂的
另一种“漫游式”电影，就像站在一列户外地铁列车内看向窗外，城市以随机却有序的侧面从眼前滑过。巴黎可能就像欧洲的纽约，每个人都是旅人，每当停顿，就以结伴的方式在城市内进行“旅行”。
法语的每个单词都粘在一起了 说出来全是浪漫调调
没有什么情节的纠结，很细腻的琐碎却能让人动情。电影其实早已经没有内容可拍了，精神世界里，却有超无限的空间。毕竟人类永远是活不明白的。恰当的环境，恰当的气氛，一个恰当的细节，可能就影响一个人的一生！
#Berlinale72nd# 4.5 与《阿曼达》着重于情绪的生长不同，更多是一种状态的描摹，在状态的捕捉中提炼出细腻的情绪，异质感由突然出现的人物提供，但在漫游间，情绪触感逐渐消融异质，使其与情境融于一体。既是巴黎的故事，也是个体的故事。
是个温暖的导演；偷偷溜进影厅看[圆月映花都]&那句包含“似曾相识”的台词；好多十五区的空镜头
属于夜旅人的夜电台
看这部电影的感官特别不真实。作为一个半吊子法语学习者，第一次在电影院看法语电影。一开始影厅里只有我一个人，我坐得离屏幕很远，因为我习惯以一个旁观者态度而不是沉浸者态度来看电影，后来进来一对老夫妇坐到了第三排，突然觉得我在这个城市特别孤独。talulah说她在哪都没有归属感，后面又看到talulah看着女主一家三口抱在一起跳舞，随后她也被邀请进去，仿佛她也成了这个家的一份子…但终究不是。总体来讲是个很轻飘飘的片子，一直忍不住想，他们生活触底了揭不开锅了还可以住在大公寓里还可以谈恋爱还可以游手好闲写诗歌还可以找工资很低的但很热爱的很浪漫的工作，在大好青春的年轻人仍然要寻求自毁，这就是发达国家的privilege
很可爱的治愈系电影，被老的footage,超级玛丽的烟囱，那个年代的书和音乐打动，当然还有侯麦的圆月映花都。20220611
一首温柔的时代印象曲，艰难未知充满悲喜的家庭生活影像，动人之处在于时代痕迹和可信度，配乐太舒服了
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