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".
圆夜梦花都这个电影我也喜欢，没想到也看过几部小女主的电影了，形像有可塑性，未来可期
1980年代才是美好时代，有午夜广播，有圆月映花都，有密特朗，那时还没有没有互联网
虽然不是我能怀的(法国80年代中产)旧/但还是有点点被打动到
最近难得打心底里喜欢的一部，温柔动人。连音乐和光线也满是1980年代的妩媚哀伤。
很美的故事，没有比夏洛特演这个角色更活的了，每一个人都在自己的困境里，然彼此交集，恰如其分地相爱，互相分享一点小小的美好愿望
2022-97 如此迷幻的柔光，如怨如慕如泣如诉，是道不清的似水柔情。在千百个如此的夜里，我愿和你一起入梦，不再醒来。
善良又美丽的一家人，喜怒哀乐，悲欢离合，没有大起大落，只是随着时间各自向前。夹杂了大量的复古镜头，不知道是用的老胶片，还是新技术故意做旧的，总之很有味道。刚看到开头的几个场景，就觉得好像侯麦啊。谁知道后面还真的有《月圆映花都》的片段。好喜欢电影原声，有种缓缓流淌的情绪，静谧而舒服。甘斯布好温柔好优雅，没想到还能看到艾曼纽·贝阿，她倒是挺A的！
表面波澜不惊习以为常的生活，实则充满情感温度。本年度目前最有温度、最有情感冲击的片子，非常值得反复观看，很冷又很暖
Hers熱衷描繪的主題很奇怪，竟然是“幸福的家人關係可能長什麼樣子”，總之就是生活在這個城市裡有這些關係好幸福好幸福，大家都彼此互相支持，而他的唯一衝突就會建立在 就算我們已經在那樣在時間裡生活著，我們也會有很感傷的時刻。
35mm摄影机的片段使得影片有种淡淡的怀旧感。
今年柏林节参赛的片子，家庭关系写得细腻、生活，角度也有特点。可看。
看得蛮舒服的电影，喜欢，可能也因为这个故事是从声音展开的吧。白天的巴黎，夜晚的巴黎，都好美。我也曾被F像这样捡回过家。以及，也想爬一下巴黎的屋顶。
有一种温暖的东西是永存的，时间无法使它停止。比如骑着电动车载母亲，载女朋友，一家人听着音乐抱在一起跳舞。母亲演得好，让治愈的故事立住了。时不时插进的4比3 dv视角也挺有意思的，“我们在别人的碎片里”。女生与巴黎的溶接，大家同是巴黎夜旅人。迷影情节，本身是影迷，然后两次看《圆月映花都》
好法式啊，剧情，调色，音乐，人物。真好，想沉醉在巴黎的晚风中
日光之下皆覆辙，夜色深里无旧梦，上世纪八十年代的法国迷人透了，他们没赶上《鸟人》，去看了《圆月映花都》，墙上还有《德州巴黎》的海报，敬所有有你们在场的快乐
Les passagers de la nuit
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。
今早在淅沥的雨声中看完的。豆瓣统计我看过127部法国电影，但没有一部和它一样。尤其是在现今的2022年，竟然还能看到如此赤诚的电影，真的让人意想不到，如获至宝！
第一次，是偶然；第二次，是巧合；第三次，是宿命。喜歡它在我變得越來越浮躁時能一下讓我靜下來欣賞巴黎夜景的安寧。女演員們都好美。
新的一家人拥抱舞蹈时的她。
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