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".
c'était comme le moment avec elle, un moment ardent, vibrant, sincère. C'était aussi beau et précieux, oui.
几乎爱上了阿娜伊斯在剧中的每一个镜头，除了船戏！她和呆哈应该是我个人最喜欢的两位法国新生代女演员～
女作家说女学生的爱是错觉的时候，不禁让我想起高中对老师的爱，那可能也是错觉…
看的我瞳孔地震，不是開始以為是一部文青愛情故事一切都如同2倍速運動版的侯麥，沒想到是這樣的展開⋯是不是2020年之後 歐洲大陸這個女通訊錄故事要變得那麼普遍，還都是這種熱情衝的，我能理解你們的愛，平行母親那種我還更能同理一點，這個實在是，很難共情了
电影风景如画，女主更是如风一般的女子，这电影就像那不勒斯的夏天，像碎花裙，有点点清新文艺，又带着一点点慵懒，剧情节奏不疾不徐，最后作家的一席话，乃本电影点睛之笔，颇有点《廊桥遗梦》的意味，结局仁者见仁。
如果影片在1小時33分鐘艾米麗說完那段話就結束的話，也許值得再加一星。最後一幕過於理想化而顯得有些假，不過既然是法國影片那就能稍微理解了。（ps那隻狐猴還蠻上鏡的耶
满满都是夏天的感觉，树猴好可爱啊，可以养吗？
想像阿娜伊斯一样充满活力 但又不是火急火燎。看完觉得夏天也挺好
刚想给最后Emilie的那段说教扣一星，马上又为Anais拖着她进电梯的结尾➕两星。如果理智能战胜情感战胜欲望，那就不是人了。
结尾好好 本来以为是个平平无奇的BE 最后1分钟anais👍🏻
勇敢一点，迅速一点，精力充沛的女主角从不停歇。明确知道自己想要什么，爱着的是什么，比无数人都幸运。
今年和小朋友远程看的第1部电影。
“当我真正爱一个人的时候，我注意不到其他人，这根本不是关于道德的事情。”爱如果不具备这样暴力和伤害人的特质，怎么配叫爱呢。可是更迷人的却是艾米莉的克制和清醒：“你在我身上感受到的不是爱，而是幻想，你在我这里看到许多自己的投射。你说得对，我们应该真挚地去爱，但不要让爱挤占了所有空间，至少做点什么，做点你生活着的事。”
Anais真的好美。她的生活好像一直停不下来，她不能走只能跑，永远在奔跑的路上，她不能完成一次深入的谈话，和她对话的人总是来不及说完就被她跑掉了。像风，像夏日，像鲜艳的红，热烈，勇敢，冒冒失失，激情燃烧。“我想，如果一个人的生命中曾有过这样的激情，那他就不会再病倒。” 是的，于是Emilie出现了。爱，让Anais停下脚步，让她静静聆听。Emilie说这不是爱，是错觉。怎么会呢？
以为又是什么烂大街的外遇故事，却是小三爱上了原配，灵魂高度契合，又彼此追逐，让人拍案叫绝的故事走向。从始至终男与女之间的感情都无聊透顶，唯独两个身份对立的女人之间的爱情流淌着情欲的张力与诱惑。以书籍作为交流和生情的媒介，赢过皮肉间煌煌的性欲横流。两个女人之间，不论性别的爱，即使是幻象，也如夏花般美好。法国人把禁忌之恋拍的像夏日阳光下吹来的海风，充斥着漫到天际的浪漫和兜不住的明媚。
2022年看过最好的电影….人的一生都在问自己是什么，自己活着为了什么———以及，对大部分难以沉溺于宗教与虚无的现代普通人来说，我们通过抓住爱的体验来抓住生活，可是爱，尤其是对于女性来说，我们需要的怎样的爱？我们如何承认有一种超越本能的爱可以忽视一切剥削、危险与随之而来的控制让我们充盈一往直前的勇气？我喜欢看安娜伊斯在自然中奔跑的样子，自由、热烈、野性…但她抓着艾丽莎的手走进逼仄的电梯，然后亲吻，等待电梯门缓缓关上。爱是牢笼，也是因为你而无惧于牢笼的真心
说着世界就是地狱，却又灿烂勇敢地驾驭了所有的渴望。 “c'est la vie ” “我不同意”
法国女郎，黑发红唇，一袭红裙，沙滩阳光，激情洋溢，人美景美，剧情一般
I do not agree. Even if it's just an illusion, let's love when it is there between us till it no longer is.
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。
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