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".
好喜欢后半段，阿娜伊斯抛下巴黎一堆烂事跑到乡间追寻艾米丽的脚步，她想要什么都会立刻去做，但是在艾米丽面前却充满小心翼翼的试探。电影前半段像一壶沸腾的热水，在沙滩那场戏之后渐渐沉静下来，阿娜伊斯依然莽撞热切，看似是她在引导着故事，但每个关键节点都是艾米丽在掌控全局，尤其是最后的酒店对谈，除了台词精彩之外，两个女演员在眼神缱绻之间把青涩和成熟演绎得丝丝入扣，故事没有滑向狗血的三角关系，而是充满了对一段真挚感情的怜惜珍重。在哪里停下？为什么要停下？该不该停下？电梯门关上的瞬间，一切都有了答案。
2021.12.19本能与熟虑间的对话。喜欢阿娜伊斯的风风火火，步履匆匆。她的房子里，挂着普鲁斯特的小小头像。｜2022.03.05 大荧幕重温，最后无尽的吻，与对密闭电梯的接受。
“凡此种种，皆超脱时间”
或许换成女收藏家的女主演阿娜伊斯
被评论“像世界上最糟糕的人设”骗进来杀，实际上完全是两个风马牛不相及的故事。该故事哲学意味太浓，可能法国确实人均哲学家，隔壁“所言所行”同样也是哲学论述爱和关系，但因为包装了一个非常有趣的故事，所以一点也不枯燥还觉得自己“学有所成”。与之相比，这个故事就……味同嚼蜡，姬女线也显得很乏味，两个人毫无化学反应可以说
无意点开…点开之前不知道是部百合片，看到后面很懵逼
看完久久走不出来，十几天已经来回复习六七遍了还是像看第一遍的时候一样心动。Jesus， Valeria实在太迷人了！一辈子能遇上这么一个人死而无憾了……
前段喜剧风包袱密节奏快信息足，最后却突然抒情拔高博同感，导演把控着实一般
春风柔和时不时能拂过我就好，实在是羡慕也惧怕阿娜伊斯的莽与热。红色和蓝色是我眼里最适配的颜色，我要参考买一条红裙子然后刷一面雾蓝色的墙。
女主奔跑的样子很美，但是怎么说呢，爱情很重要，可是生活不止是爱情，所以我有点受不了。
很放松的电影，镜头和心情随着女主在夏日里奔跑，轻快明媚。
真好看，好看到令人叹息，怎么会有这么浓烈的人生。雄性仿佛猴子，脑容量就那么一丁点儿，镇日除了扒拉虱子就是对多看他一眼的雌性自信一句：想和我3p？
有着电梯恐惧症的女孩，最后和爱人在电梯里亲吻。
可爱的女主让一切套路都轻盈灵动，让一切反套路都顺理成章。Anais的存在本就是一种cross-border：幽闭恐惧症拒绝作为现代性产物的幽暗闭合的电梯，在延展、开放、纵深的楼梯恣意奔跑，打破空间的界限；接待韩国客人时，英语的官方介绍和法语的私人化碎碎念无缝切换，multilingualism的流动性被演绎到极致；最后小任性的I don't agree和热情的电梯拥吻，将现实的陈词滥调熊熊燃烧，与理想形象融为一体的Anais终于克服了幽闭恐惧症。
有着电梯恐惧症的女孩，最后和爱人在电梯里亲吻。
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。
女主真的是理想的样子。
没有哪个les在学生时代没暗恋过老师吧？本片结尾真是不能更完美。故事像是法式Carolx Ammonite，色彩明快配乐到位，唯一缺点可能是前半段节奏太慢，年上出场有点晚，魅力施展不太够。
四十岁或许有答案，但青年人，不要去考虑这个问题。看看《最糟糕的人》里Julie的一次次逃离，Anaïs最后的抓起对方的手说“我不同意”，这些行为都代表着同一件事：成长。
爱情观对位了，评分显得就不是那么客观了。又是一部典型estj人格女主带全场的情节剧，很爽，很有玩味的感觉。最后艾米丽对她说：你对我不是爱情，就是你产生的幻象。直接打在我心上，阿娜做的动作也足够优秀：so，又怎么样呢，我还是要拉你去开房哈哈哈
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