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".
这个卡司也太刻意了。。真是违和😅整个片子风格也很轻挑，一点都不简奥斯汀
三星半。用21世纪的笔法改编18世纪的故事竟然有些有趣，让永远get不到奥斯丁的我看得进津津有味。但是男女主真的没啥化学反应。导演是不是很爱伦敦生活？总是在这里那里看到一些伦敦生活的影子，人间清醒的达妹非常像客观理智版的fleabag
跟着电影去旅行。丹麦米其林大厨到托斯卡纳继承遗产——一座老旧城堡。这里除了有阳光、美景，漂亮的食材，还有童年好友，以及自己与父亲的爱恨。本来我以为片名中的“爱”是指父子之情和童年小伙伴间的友谊，结果非要让马上结婚的小伙伴爱上丹麦厨子，并为此离婚，而且明明是发小意大利律师更帅气，这里的安排还是很牵强的。在损失了大几十万欧元后，丹麦厨子把团队搬到了意大利，谁能拒绝地中海的美丽呢？美景有一些，美食不太多，老外吃橄榄油太猛了。我有点好奇丹麦厨子和丹麦短发女是啥关系，合作伙伴？
真挺烂的 甚至感受不到男女主相爱 一点隐忍和内敛的动人都没有 充斥着美国人的自私自利和小聪明 达妹本来是可以驾驭这个角色的 没想到fleabag附体只剩油腻和aloof 男主硬是到最后才摊牌 前一个小时都在浪费时长 就算憋到内伤 我们要的也是smother hotness 不是两个毫无火花的人装模作样/原著会更好 这种看不出的爱只能看书里的心理活动了 一般导演拍不出来
只有风景是好的。哪怕再上两盘菜呢？和父亲的关系根本没处理好，更谈何爱情。
所谓的现代版改编难道只是选角上体现肤色平等，以及女主打破“第四面墙”的尴尬独白，就很不伦不类，真是糟糕的改编。男主像根木头，眼神空洞毫无魅力，演不出深情味道，男二又过于油腻浮夸。达妹无论是扮相或演技都没有一丝符合这个角色，全员劝退。
对奥斯汀原著毫无了解，感觉看到最后小半前也还不错，built up了美味精彩狗血后结局很容易就显的太随意了（。男主还差点，达妹太美啦！！强行给达妹加到四星吧就😽😽😽
女主挺漂亮可爱，演技也蛮灵的，男主没啥魅力😅
看开头就知道结尾的美食爱情风光电影🎬可是谁有能拒绝美食爱情迷人的托斯卡纳呢哈哈哈哈哈五星，看大厨们烧饭真是享受～早日恢复通航去旅行啊
煽情不到位，无厘头不到位，哪边都不讨好，纯无聊
达妹实在没有奥斯汀女主气质，意在创新的主角monologue让娴静内敛克制隐忍的Anne周身透着居高临下的清高，深情变成轻浮。强行黑白配的选角让人崩溃，失败的改编They say the universe always has a plan. You’re young, u don’t know what the future has in store. You’ll rally & be happy again. No life is without worry. Don’t let anyone tell u how to live, or who to love. Do u know whose company I enjoy? My own.
李光洙太搞笑了，他那一拳下去灾难片瞬间就搞笑了
没有人是特别的，但每个人都能成为特别的风景，就看是谁在看。
面对群山，托斯卡纳是另一副模样。看看想想这剧情我竟然看完了。
6.1分。美食什么的根本就不存在的😂这是一部意大利风景小镇托斯卡纳的旅游宣传片。故事还凑合。
电影的第一人称视角赋予了女主角更多的表达主动权。无论是内心独白，情绪性的发泄，还是健全的自我意识，这个角色已经完全从沉默温顺的待嫁姿态中走出，试图在生活的各个方面完成多种情感连接。故事削弱了绝对的阶级对立，也减少了甜美浪漫的分量。摄影在人物布局，光影和色彩方面渲染了更为苦涩清冷的氛围，而这种感知亦来源于男女主人公之间的疏离，个体成长后沉淀出的成熟和自我保护，更有经时间酝酿后的理性回归。电影也借此审视了恋爱关系中被视为男性气质的保护欲和担当责任，以及(少部分)女性对平等的觉醒，拒绝依附他者的认知。轻喜剧的风格有缓和各方对立的意义，很多细节都再现了《伦敦生活》（絮叨的独白，兔子替代了豚鼠）和《布里奇顿》（角色设置和社交景观）轻快的流行风格，但是离奥斯汀文化及其时代已经很远了。
意大利风景片, I can never forget the rolling hills of Toscany.. 一定要去road trip!
风景好美 坐在椅子上那段太爱 家庭关系拉扯的那段有启人思考意味
有美食，有风景，有亲情，有爱情，要什么大城市
像棵大树，深深扎根，默默汲取，在静默无声中长成参天模样，清醒而又倔强地成长。
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