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".
相比前作情节密度的提高使得不再有彼时的松弛惬意，虽说有不错的空境和音乐 但虚焦的大量使用并没有完全掌握并传达城市的质感，而是一些人物情感思绪的流动，街头骑车和午夜狂欢梦回《迷离劫》《赤子冰心》。
想象的生活与现实总是有差距，但我们还是依然热爱它！
法式经典，侯麦再现。细碎，敏感，怀旧，朦胧。家庭关系，少年心事。梦巴黎。Talulah 真可爱。儿子有点像《四百击》里的安托万。音乐很好，金色泡沫感。引用北岛的诗：那时我们有梦，关于文学，关于爱情，关于穿越世界的旅行。如今我们深夜饮酒，杯子碰在一起，都是梦碎的声音。Gerhard Richter《Reading》的画面。
温温柔柔的，在片尾曲出来的时候忍不住落泪。
很舒缓很温柔的电影 是多爱巴黎和多爱电影的人才能拍出这样的感觉啊 塞纳河畔的夜色 深夜电台的女声 公寓的灯火 这是属于夜晚的超能力 在匆匆夜色中爬上楼顶 在天台上抽完剩下的烟 看尽午夜满天星光 电车在空无一人的街道疾驰 逃票看一场电影 得知喜欢的演员已离世 最温柔动人的巴黎只在深夜和清晨
我爬上烟囱 为了点上一根烟
以及 奶油焦糖就应该配JoeDassin。配乐太加分了走到心里去的那种 麻麻衣品超棒 有一份优雅在里面。
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。
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
3.6 一种由圆月映花都、北方的桥、旧影像、随机闯入的陌生麻烦、深爱的回忆、莫名的家人治愈组成的淡淡的氛围吧。甘小姐拥有少数迷人气质。看到百分之十的审计小姐姐一个亲切的跳戏。感谢神通豆友，没有你们我可怎么活（夸张）！
在我看来，电影里的悲伤故事，是那么的令人嫉妒
Très parisienne … j’ai une petite nostalgie mais …ça va.. 3.5
B+ 镜头和配乐有不少可取之处。很温柔的一个故事，和我期待的或者说想象的不太一样。但是电影院里德州巴黎的海报、穿插在影片中的复古镜头又很难不让你对这部影片产生好感。最喜欢的一个镜头是录完节目的深夜，女主角把Talilah带回家。镜头下的巴黎夜晚美极了。
八十年代的巴黎夜衬出夏洛特脆弱敏感的美。@72Berlinale
虽然还是稍显中产和匠气，但朴实的镜头语言疯狂加分，有点侯麦的味道。另外，甘斯伯格的声音也太温柔了。
8/10。摄影、配乐都很棒，旧的、模糊的影像的插入，真的有一种如梦似幻的感觉，人与人之间的情感大抵也是如此。亲情、爱情与友情，片中均有所触及，尽管几乎每一段情感都没有特别深刻之处，以及某些人物缺席，比如伊丽莎白的母亲与前夫，但在这样令人陶醉的影片氛围里，能够感受到人物的情感与彼此之间的连结就足够了。不过有一点比较可惜，就是影片的故事内容并没有与时代背景相结合，只有旧影像的插入，人物的穿着打扮与场景设置，以及侯麦的《圆月映花都》诸如此类表现时代感的元素是不够的，简介里提及的政治气氛与法国的新生并没有得到展现，如果能够把时代环境与个人生活形成对照，必然会更好。
体现出法国电影一贯的风韵，同时保持着法国室内戏的优良传统
Utopia ou d’ailleurs
没有戏剧冲突，没有任何夸张，扁平化、按照时间顺序，平淡地展开。可是，表面上看似波澜不惊，却处处反映着生活的艰辛、逼真，以及生命的美好、幽暗，以及盛放。这样拍电影其实很好的，关于电影的东西——情感、故事、生活、导演的立论，以及留给观众电影之外的思考，全有了，而且平静如水。
84/100，先給看過的其他一些降分，其次是法國片打分要求稍微高一點。就很靈動，節奏可以說滿分，從劇本到拍攝到剪輯和濾鏡空鏡頭調度就流暢得沒什麼好說的，韻到十足的味了，各個人物都還是會在不同時候讓人有代入感的，各方面都很成功。
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