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".
后一半值四星，幸运的事是如果我们在同一天出生，在同一天死亡，那就不会有人悲伤
“向所有受过苦的人致敬”
Hilarious and heartwarming
超出预想 不错的封城期法式小品 一纸禁令让平时冷漠疏离自顾不暇的巴黎居民楼内反而有了温度 Dany Boon拍这种虽冒着cliché的傻气却也不乏笑点与温情的喜剧是最手到擒来的 以及空无一人的街景真美 像件限时存在的绝世艺术品 (胖乎乎的豚鼠被科学家按压的时候的时候还吐出小舌头可爱死我算了)
剧本很薄弱 分镜并不是一直保持在最好的状态 但是我对福山润演这种角色真的无法拒绝……在这黑暗与孤独的世界，相信一定会有人与自己互为光亮
感动。虽然不是Happy ending，观于上海封控期间。
Paris me manque tellement
那个防疫过度的男人做了很多我内心的小人做过的事情
还有不少笑点，别国的隔离确实松很多，那个医生好像沈腾，那个歌真的太难听了。
新冠命题的现实题材电影，其实不一定非得太过沉重，本片能依然保持法国电影人的诙谐与浪漫，这点还挺难能可贵的。笑点来自形形色色人物身上所展现出的抗疫态度和生活状态，有夸张的，有讽刺的，但都是真实的。泪点则在于，全球疫情肆虐的当下，全人类的失去以及对人性的体现。 * 如果不同家庭的交集再丰富密切些就更好了，角色之间的结绳还不够紧，这也使得最后一场戏冲击泪腺的力度就弱了点。
À l'humanité solidaire. 薛定谔的封城焦虑中看一眼巴黎中产们的疫情生活，对病毒的恐惧总是会与其它情感、欲望或责任争夺对于自身身体的控制，每个人都在这一过程中被消耗，幸运的是在个人能量/情感被耗尽前产生与他人的连结，在独自面对丧失时感受到群体的关怀。
疫情下众生相，荒诞而不失美好。背景换成中国也不会违和
长达一小时的有声童话绘本，画风是很特别的手绘风格，就像看了一本精致的童话书，故事上还是有不少欠缺的，让人觉得时而缓慢看不明白，时而又有些跳跃，似乎故事线都可有可无了。片中想说的到底是在说懵懂的相依之情？还是亲情？还是其他感情的错觉呢，或许就这样也不必分清了才好吧。
表现疫情之下各色人等的生活，比一味煽情要好的太多。
开头很吸引人，对疫情下的中产阶级众生相尖刻吐槽，大多数人依旧自私自利的日常，有人怕得要死，有人完全无视，有人继续冷漠刻薄。片内最好笑的是一惊一乍的男编辑，他如临大敌的全副武装外出，对家人斤斤计较的强迫症清洁标准，太似曾相识了（他的律师妻子和女儿都很漂亮）；住顶层的唯一业主光（其余都是租户）头佬，势利眼的明明白白，毒舌的坦坦荡荡，也有点fun；末尾院子里的人们一起安稳门房，令人泪流。P.S.巴黎空荡荡的街区真美；巴黎的住宅院别致有趣；没想到在这个春天，上海冷不防变重疫区，每天层出不穷的应对措施令人人都疲于奔命。
终于有法国人拍的疫情片了。夸张里有真实，笑里还有感动，可爱！
妖国外宾开明绅士拯救红码少女，这难道不是青年一个沪人太太午睡时做的梦，梦里的末日仍然是鱼鳖不可胜食的丰盈模样，筷子一碰都是おいしい的声音
有一些小细节挺能引起共鸣的，衔接和逻辑就算了，结尾人家死了你们一起唱听我说谢谢你，我直接掐人中好吗
在疫新冠大环境下的小电影 法国电影特有的轻松
原本决定打三星，那个结尾生生把我感动了，于是又加一星。这部法国版《北街南院》，让我见识到瘟疫蔓延初期法国平民的应对状态，面对灾难，大家都一样一样儿的。另：做喵真幸福，能逃过许多劫难。
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