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".
3.5。前兩部精彩的當代題材後，艾斯在這個年代戲中注入了太多留戀，因而拖泥帶水落入俗套。流行金曲蹦迪、沈積素材穿插、背景虛化光點都是些極為老舊的手段，對於後新浪潮手法和人物關係的借用更是加劇了這一局面。多麼希望能見到艾斯再拍出肆意灑脫的城市漫遊鏡頭。
他们的时间是流动的，我们的时间是7天、14天的块状物，他们即使生活艰难也没有失去安全感，而我们......
一群受伤的人一起努力的追求美好生活，很温暖很私人。
40年前的巴黎夜，不谈论浪漫，聚焦于一个家庭的温柔和善良。生活磕磕碰碰，骑着小摩托穿梭城市街道，坚持喜欢的事，做善良、温柔的人是件多么酷和浪漫的事。
是个温暖的导演；偷偷溜进影厅看[圆月映花都]&那句包含“似曾相识”的台词；好多十五区的空镜头
第一次是偶然，第二次是巧合，第三次是宿命。
@Berlinale72首映 难得在柏林的主竞赛单元看到这么温暖向的片子（后面又看了Alcarras），像一封给80年代巴黎的情书，困难与痛苦都处理得温柔轻盈。夏洛特·甘斯布毫不费力地就演活了一个从迷茫到重新发现生活的中年离异女性，小女主太灵动可爱。结尾Et Si Tu N'Existais Pas的旋律响起时，忍不住会心一笑，跟着轻轻哼唱。
#72nd Berlinale# EFM online-主竞赛。7分可以有。片名翻成《巴黎夜行人》可能比较好。很温情的单亲家庭故事（不少场景让人想起《少年时代》，尤其最后搬家那段），不温不火，一点不抓马，对八十年代时代气氛的再现是使用一系列来自老电影等的既得影像素材（画幅不同，片尾有list）的匹配剪辑来实现的（也有新拍的16毫米素材），怀旧气氛也很好传达出来了。也算得上是近来电影节圈里突然热起来的声音相关题材（广播电台），当然最令人会心一笑的是导演是个侯麦粉，直接cue了《圆月映花都》及女主角，当群演那场戏估计也是cue《冬天的故事》。
温情略杂着感伤，生活就是这样，毫无情面，但我们会报团取暖，不经意间制造着美好的片段。
温柔、平和，犹如平缓流逝的河流，城市夜晚的风拂过河面。女主离婚、工作、重新建立新的关系，到最后搬家，在那几年里，看到的是她始终努力地在活着。有人来过，有人离开，但生活依旧前行，日子总是要过下去的。电影的配乐和色彩太迷人了，像是一首诗，一首关于巴黎夜色下来来往往的人们的诗。
削弱情节笔力（节点如旅人般轻轻匆匆来到人物身边和离开），削弱时空实感（城市图景和时间变迁形同过眼云烟的幻象），留下的空落交由一次次自人物敞开的片刻补充和主导，相信彼此散落在生命中的交集。不落至实处，朦胧模糊却不可擦除，一如塞纳河畔光晕。
有些伤感，有些温柔，又有些私人。好舒服的一部电影。看到他们要去看《鸟人》，结果去晚了，只好跑去看《圆月映花都》，墙上还贴着《德州巴黎》的海报，真是好时光。
人们过度在意着日常的琐碎，忘记了夜间同样是生活的重要组成。只不过在这样的时间段里，看似变慢的时间，却在人来人往中，加速着欲望、快乐与苦痛的动态平衡。最终的结果，最后的取舍，全然出自你的本心。米夏埃尔·艾斯用极佳的审美，曼妙的音乐，挑逗着巴黎午夜的氤氲，艾曼纽·贝阿、诺亚·阿比塔充满着不同年龄层的独有魅力，而夏洛特·甘斯布则像河流汇入海洋一般，一瞬间便能卷走你所有的爱。
【4.5】举重若轻地处理着生活境况，犹如不经意的一瞥，柔和了每个夜晚。
人物、故事其实并没有那么出色，但复古味道强烈的影像和音乐，以及从观影过程中感受到的对巴黎浓烈的爱，这些元素融合所产生的忧郁却又梦幻的氛围，为电影带来了独特且有着后劲的出色观感。三星半。
85/100。时而清冷时而明丽的色调，温和轻柔的配乐，复古的镜头，组成了一个温馨又忧伤淡淡的故事。亘古不变的夜幕下，我们永远不知道我们将旅向何方，那些曾伴、伴着、将伴我们的旅人，或而一瞬，或而长久，都会在我们的旅程中留下一段温暖的回忆。“我一开始想象的生活并不是这样的，但我们还是尽力去热爱它了，不是吗？”
too overwhelming to describe the texture of a fragile woman
我爬上烟囱 为了点上一根烟
Talulah去楼下洗澡前，女主儿子和朋友拿望远镜偷窥女性，这段戏是Talulah融入这个家庭的关键一笔。女主收留Talulah是善良，女主儿子收留Talulah源自于青春期的荷尔蒙。
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