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".
轻巧但并不自怯 在某一刻或许是对旧时光的怀念 又在某一瞬间把那种驻足感变成少女前进的步伐 在最后一刻终将与未来形成你是你 我还是我的连系
不好说氛围营造的手法是否算讨巧，但情境来源于种种故事型，细节恰恰在被拉远的时间里模糊了。喜欢Talulah临近结尾睡醒后流泪那段，它证明了美好的回忆同样也是疼痛的回忆。
妈妈好美好美
不知道是缅怀时间还是巴黎的夜如始自终，与甘斯布仿佛共享过同一个巴黎夜，同一种忧郁日复一日地淌过塞纳河，覆盖了街道，在铁塔午夜最后一次闪灯的时候画下句号。只有铁塔的灯光是平等的，不论是16区摇着红酒的old money，还是战神广场上抽廉价烟的流浪汉，那时那刻，看到灯光的所有夜旅人都获得过短暂的幸福。我也害怕我触碰过的一切被我毁掉，害怕幸福的人都是可怜的胆小鬼，一边渴望着幸福，一边亲手毁掉。
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
如果我们为了过去的损失而耿耿于怀，而维权所耗超过同样时间所得，那么我们可以选择关注未来，把过去放下一点。
还有一位流浪巴黎的女孩
温柔到死的ost、夜色中的点点灯光、电台、微冷的气味，完全还原了最喜欢的那个年代。
人物除了Gainsbourg都不太讨喜 没什么共鸣
高饱和度的画面、明亮的客厅，给岌岌可危的我的脆弱的生活带来了浓郁的久违的新鲜。没有朝生暮死的放纵，是80年代很有希望的感觉。内向的小哥这里真的表现得很内向，很棒。甘斯布美丽又游刃有余，非常女神。
電影只有一條平鋪直敘的故事線，就仿佛是在將伊麗莎白的生活一樣，簡簡單單，沒有大風浪也沒有大崛起，平緩而動人心，簡單中又有法式的浪漫充斥著，這是典型的法國浪漫電影，但又有了生活的氣息，屬實難得。
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。
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。
#22Berlinale 1
女主从年轻美到现在。以及，这电影基本上戳中了我所有喜欢的点
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。
奇妙的感觉，在向往的八十年代为背景的影片中，出现了最爱的侯麦电影《圆月印花都》。又能瞬间回到那几年，疫情未开始时，有着侯麦记忆的时光。结尾试镜片段，和《冬天的故事》里公交车片段相似。童年时代成长片段再现，时光如涓涓细流，流淌过很多地方，不会再回来了。720p观影，模糊中似乎更还原接近那个年代。圆月印花都的女主26岁生日的前一天心脏病发作去世，这是偶然还是宿命？深夜电台，倾听述说抚慰，学生时代曾向往的工作地。在天台上，在虚无缥缈的微光里彼此虚实交融。
看这种家庭剧情片我的眼泪就不会缺席，后面四个人围抱在一起时，音乐欢快，但我却狂掉眼泪。妈妈重返社会，在工作中成长；被人善良对待，她也将爱意回报出去；受过伤害，依旧能勇敢接受新的约会。妈妈是好温柔的人呀！小女孩则有种忧郁和天真混合的美，为了保持彼此间纯粹的感情，选择告别这段温馨的日子，电影院常客的她最终找到了与电影有关的工作。她和儿子的关系会有些像《Normal people》吧。“有一种温暖的东西，是永存的”，好想遇到温暖的人和事，虽然现在是夏天。晚安晚安，夜旅人。
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
非常动人。夜旅人电台联系着整个故事线 是坚强是勇敢 也是治愈也是热爱。
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