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".
三星半；巴尔扎克名著改编，故事截取了小说的大部分内容，讲述得很流畅，镜头语言也比较丰富。演员表演、镜头运用还是体现了新时代的美学风格，比较接近好莱坞的商业大片，华丽有余、沉淀不足，原著中对印刷业和当时大的历史背景刻画在影片里基本没有体现，这也是商业作品和巴尔扎克小说的最大不同之处
电影只是拍摄出粗糙的框架，和情节，而原著是将十九世纪王朝复辟时的巴黎中的政治，宗教，人性，生活，爱情，活灵活现的描写出来，什么是阶层的差距，什么是贵族，什么是现实世界的规律，其中都有答案。
全片几乎完全都是以提琴协奏曲或者交响曲为主的配乐，没有任何“现代感”，虽然这会在某种程度上拉高片子的观影门槛，但无疑，这是很优秀的表现方式。
这部电影根据巴尔扎克小说改编，男主人翁是写诗的文人形象，可出了活力以外没有资历在社会上立足，对待人和事都没有靠谱的点，傲慢，狂妄。后期在自由派正营靠写讽刺文攻击保皇党为生，小有名气后，野心欲望吞噬了他想成为诗人的初衷。可他对保皇党还存有幻想，背叛自由派，投奔保皇党派，可这是上流社会的女人想整他想出的主意。这样两边都得罪光了，遭到致命的打击。这个形象真不喜欢。
想去看原著 “妥协是永恒的” lucian毁灭之前关于权利地位金钱的幻想是怎么拍的？我怀疑是躺在滑轨上往前划，然后有好多群演在上面伸手做动作。
过山车的经历…来回摇摆，树敌太多，也算精彩过
「对吕西安来说，这一切都开始于纸上的墨水和对美人的爱。」
“一篇假新闻和它的辟谣是两件事，唯一重要的真相，就是销售量”这句话好像在哪里看到过，最近看了《漂亮朋友》总感觉吕和书里的主人公在心里活动上有相似，但是电影丝毫没有表现出来，里面甚至没有一个心理活动，全程第三视角，即便是表现讲述者自己的时候也很客观。配乐个个经典；大量的旁白是我感觉电影失去了半隐半漏的魅力，通过旁白串联故事，当然这个用结尾短短几句话就解释了“我在向你们讲述他的故事”。相比电影版本，我还是更想看文字，很多情感斗争，人物介绍，细节描写只有在字里行间才有魅力。
巴黎掀开她的裙子，让这个信徒般的年轻诗人，看见她骇人的裸体。今夜向整个巴黎宣战的于连，将在傍晚时分走入家乡的湖中
过山车的经历…来回摇摆，树敌太多，也算精彩过
那个年代流量还在纸媒 如今已经在你眼前了 从开头就不喜欢吕西安作风和人 确实没好结果 内森第一次和吕西安说好话时我竟然开始圈粉了纸醉金迷 权利物欲本就是虚幻（我随便逛留下橄榄枝 拿着橄榄的人再也找不到给他橄榄的人 尽管他从一开始都没想要那个橄榄 人确实是一不小心就陷进去啊另一槽点这尼玛小兄弟成名的路太顺利了吧哈原来内森是多兰啊卧槽 我说我他妈还挺喜欢他的真是的 我是不是喜欢奶奶的弟弟型啊我的妈 啥 这还是巴尔扎克的小说我寻思我现在莫名其妙就戏剧和欧洲古典了非常奇妙的历程？之前看安娜卡列尼娜的电影改编也是这个感觉好像没多牛逼但就是能用精彩形容 安利下个月我就搞巴尔扎克比预想的要好很多最近看的比较过瘾的一个只不过和法比安一个路数啊 本来以为这是英国的服化道法国的拍法更喜欢这种英国会更老派和闷
UGC发邮件邀请的神秘首映，去看之前连是哪部片都不晓得。印象中很少看这种法国古装电影。
虽然只拍出了原著1/5的内容和1/10的深度，但已算是足够优秀的一部电影。片中汇聚了几乎所有法语国家的演员（法国、比利时、加拿大），好在基本不出戏；原著的语言实在太精彩，电影于是加了很多旁白（虽然是比较偷懒的方式，但也还能接受）；电影的很多情节处理得过于温情，以至于显得有点肤浅，原著要残酷得多。
或许我们曾几何时都扑向过虚荣的陷阱在那片松软的橘黄灯下自命不凡，再美丽的泡沫终会消散，不知那时清醒的还剩几何…
你有才华，你有梦想，现实需要你的才华，但不要你的梦想。怀揣着文学梦的单纯的人，因为生活放下自尊虚心求教，学着变坏，学着报复。最后还是要抱团，利益永远至上。但其实你还有才华，你曾经也有过了最美的爱情。大家爱的不是你的才华，当你的才华让别人害怕的时候才是才华也是很讽刺。男主轮廓好英俊。喜欢卡洛琳，夫人是好是坏到最后都没分清，或者只是自私吧，我以为很难看的文艺片，竟然意外很好看，都停不下来
波旁复辟；Au 19e, le principe de publicité va être dévoyé au sens où les propriétaires de journaux vont vouloir faire de l’argent donc faire de la publicité de tout et n’importe quoi ,et pas seulement des idées politiques；Un art devient bourgeois : le théâtre.
首鼠两端的人终究不得好死———只是可怜了男主的第二个女友，算是故事里唯一一个好人
看了大多數影評都反省這片抨擊媒體道德和記者良知。其實感覺導演更多是借著「Lucien的故事」警示我們人性中「善與惡」、「慾與妒」。
正如那本书的最后一句话
我倒是挺想看到吕西安的失败，但是卡洛琳有点无辜，整部剧略拖沓
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