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".
极强的处女作，成熟，面面俱到，深浅相间，持续关注。
这样愣头青 一切一团糟 只顾自己的横冲直撞的女主在生活中还是电影中我果然都一点都不喜欢
所谓自由勇敢，不过是荷尔蒙上头本能的横冲直撞。毫无克制的，这是爱吗？“我不同意”。
亲爱的法国人啊，你们可真是个爱的民族。
年上说：这不是爱情，是欲望驱使下的幻想，你应该好好享受你现在的生活，放下对我的执念balabalabala最后来了句c’est la vie (这句直接笑出声好不好哈哈哈) 年下：我不同意。妙啊妙啊，年轻真好哈哈哈哈
喜欢~喜欢这种平淡生活中透露着哲思勇敢真实的法国电影，它就像生活一样不完美，但它魅力四射。
开篇第一个镜头女主从花店风风火火出来 穿着明艳的红色一路奔跑 就不禁感叹这可太法国电影了 话说 女作家找瓦莱丽亚演一点不意外 阿姨这几年狂接这种 还是可以花两个小时感受一下法式浪漫
有点招人讨厌的女主角阿娜伊斯，在一个夏天里的爱情体验。前半段看得颇有重复感，最后半小时完全抬高了电影，自由轻盈勇敢如何与成熟理性相互吸引，结果爱情战胜了幽闭恐惧症。PS. 女主角少女感不太足。
电影里的男的都好像被异性恋思想掌控的呆瓜哈哈哈哈。anais横冲直撞，没有边界感地所求自己想要的，逃避现实不负责任，看着年轻但很独立，比如她会自己决定堕胎，会让发生完关系的男人睡沙发只因为她习惯一个人睡觉。我觉得女性要从“关系”的驯化中走出来，不要总把维持“关系”作为一种目标和束缚，很多感情只是感情，并非一定要是什么“关系”的开始。
等了四十分钟才正式等来第二位女主，一度怀疑这是不是拉片。但中间的暧昧气息还可以。
You live out your desires.Do you realize that ? You were so free and so brave...You seduced me.
真的是只有法国人才能拍出来的电影，轻盈、活泼、可爱。女主角Anais让我想起卡丽娜在戈达尔影片中蹦蹦跳跳的旧日时光，但又以一股鲜活的当下性，生动演绎巴黎女子图鉴。本来想给三颗星，but the sexual part gave me arousal so I decide to add one more. Guess I’m going to have mommy issue…😍
好喜欢电影里Anaïs的性格 “tu vis au bout de tes passions” 在生活里如此大胆自然地索取 恼人又有点可爱 但是更喜欢结尾时的话语“不要让爱占据了所有的空间”
这是一部真正的后现代女性主义电影！My body, my choice！最后的场景两位女主演的也太好了，耗尽勇气说完成年人该说的一切，56岁已经没什么能吓到她了，她也不舍她也悲伤小心但她知道该做什么，而年轻人的不甘心和难过都在脸上，“我不同意”即是我要行动。（最后一幕尽管好心但显得有点多余）两位女主演都太美了！剧中所有男人都觉得自己可以搞3P也是太真实了，男人，就是这么自信。 😄
从恐惧幽闭到回到幽闭，阿娜伊斯终于遇到了一段让她成长的爱情，即使只有一个短暂的夏天。
亲爱的法国人啊，你们可真是个爱的民族。
肯定是无法避免跟《世界上最糟糕的人》做对比的，但是个人观感好很多；可能穿着小碎花裙狂奔的法国人还是更可爱一些，而后来发现她爱上的人更有魅力、更知性，还带着羞涩又沉稳的笑，蓝蓝的眼睛+“说吧 来吧 我在这里了”，衬托下片子中的男性都弱爆了；anais永远是一抹红色做事也风风火火，女作家则是像一抹安静深邃的蓝色，静静告诉她需要打破自我，把自己的力气完成更大的事，爱欲并不是一切，现在看来我是同意的...但是同样anais跳上自己害怕的空间用勇气表达自己的爱，迈出那一步也是非常美妙的，不论结局如何，非常惊喜及欣慰能在大银幕看到的片子♪谢谢法文
阿娜伊斯 一个永远跑在路上的女孩 她的自由和勇敢让我惊讶 就像Emilie所说的 “你活在所有渴望之上”
No matter love or illusion, catch what you can grasp
她真的像台推土机，不停地向前，一直在不停地跑。爱不应该是全部，该自己去生活，用自己现在的身份。分手戏好看的，认真又温柔。/种草了女主的双肩包和艾米丽的口红。（
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