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".
一直喜欢不起来此类题材，什么关注女性伤痛啊，为啥不关注所谓的开放式关系，真不知道根源在哪。
“一种只攻击女性的病，使她们变为家庭主妇的病。”
女性在普遍时空背景上承受的苦难
看过的关于「堕胎」题材的电影，前有2007年获得第60届戛纳电影节 主竞赛单元 金棕榈奖的罗马尼亚电影《四月三周两天》，后有2020年获得第70届柏林电影节 银熊奖 评审团大奖的美/英电影《从不，很少，有时，总是》，还有这部2021年获得第78届威尼斯电影节 主竞赛单元 金狮奖的法国电影《正发生》。---- 怀孕12周的安妮做堕胎手术的长镜头让我联想起《罗马》中女佣克里奥生孩子的长镜头，而后安妮将死胎排出体外的血腥画面莫名让我回忆起妈妈说曾经计划生育时期村里有妇女超生被抓后强行堕胎的事情（不过我印象中却没看过这方面的影视纪录片），……
半小时体量的题材伴随生殖感官的拉伸，但剪辑上象征时间的压迫和周遭环境的变化还是有点过于苍白，女主表演灵气很符合基调，大胆的镜头内容下痛感的宣泄仍然是孤立的，文学的多次存在互文很有亮点。
7.1分。
【B】确实是乏善可陈的，但这份女性主义的宣言和“正在发生”的社会性伤痛依旧刻骨而令人绝望。
威尼斯电影节。1960的法国堕胎还未合法化，可想而知意外怀孕而又无法堕胎的女性有多么困难，而且与身体承受的痛苦相比，心理创伤会更大，基本上没有人会帮你，因受宗教影响保守的医生还会为了避免堕胎而开保胎药，甚至还会有不怀好意的男人因为你怀孕而占你便宜，仅有的也只是一点没啥用的同情而已，毕竟帮忙了是要蹲局子的。电影的堕胎画面很大尺度，镜头直对着脱落的胎儿，如此真实的镜头能让人瞬间代入场景中，确实会让观众一时无法接受。但我感觉这电影没有什么特别的地方，单单从金狮奖的层面上来评价。不知道与以往堕胎题材的电影有没有什么不一样的地方，个人认为能获奖主要是题材占比更大一点。
女性在普遍时空背景上承受的苦难
想到了另一部电影《四月三周两天》，影像更凌厉。父权、社会、律法、世俗对女性的重重重压，尽管如此，安妮仍然勇敢以对。如果我生下他，我会恨他一辈子。因为可能影响一整个人生。
“你病了？” “一种只会攻击女性的病，让她们变成家庭主妇的病”…
能让人感同身受甚至换位思考是这部影片成功的关键，看似漫不经心的节奏其实都是紧凑的内心戏，没有过多的渲染和添加，温柔且生猛，无助但决绝，女孩深陷的绝望和自救比起战场上洒血的男人更悲决和坚定。更难得的是片子没有明显的说教倾向，把一个事实摆出来，是对是错每个观影者心里都有一把尺。
安的幸运之处在于，她在历史大背景下遇到了逆流而行的个体，而不幸之处在于，并不是所有女孩都像她一样幸运，这一切仍然正发生。
【Sundance 2022】冷静的、直接的、血淋淋的，彼时此刻依然正发生的故事。（想把隔壁的《珍妮热线》再减掉一颗星）
但凡女子，同一命运。
四星半。干脆犀利，几乎没有废料。三分之二开始逐渐蓄力，暗流涌动，甚至令人头皮发麻。惊悚动人。声音设计和配乐合适得像本就生长在故事里。女导演以及一个少女冒险的故事竟毫无矫作和泛滥，十分难得。工整到毫无痕迹。血腥的温柔，棒！
随着周数的增加，递进的压抑让人逐渐透不过气，三次钻心的疼痛感从生理到心理，透过屏幕疯狂的涌出，让人近乎晕厥，直到最后卫生间的那声落水，窒息感到了顶峰。这是压在那个年代欧洲女性身上的三座大山，性压抑，子宫压抑，男性失位，直到60年后的今天，她们还在为反堕胎法而抗争。男同胞更应该好好看看这部作品，这是男性需要承担起的责任。
整整100分钟，代入感有点差。原因在于内心戏太多，稍有压抑却还算自然。鉴于《四月三周两天》与《从不、很少、有时、总是》再看此片，承认片名是贴合的，但故事性好差！既然是自传体叙事，它是希望靠怎样的镜头去吸引人吗？请原谅我低俗的这样思考。但通过此片——欧洲无论是上世纪60年代还是在今天，对于女性的性建设或心理延伸应该是在战后就从未疏导过，或者说谁也没思考或在意过这件事！
《四月三周两天》堕胎引产都这么可怕直观得拍出来警示众人了 还有更多想象不到的舆论压力 一切后果自己承担 女孩子对自己好一点吧 女主酷似赵今麦
3.5，金狮奖这几年的作品趋于同化，除了19年的《小丑》，感觉都是一个路数的淡片。
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