‘Peak Everything’ Review: Quebecois Filmmaker Anne Émond Finds Hope & Humor in A Gently Offbeat Apocalyptic Romance

Peak Everything – Anne Emond [Cannes '25 Review]

Peak Everything (or Amour Apocalypse, its easily translatable French title) is only Anne Émond’s second film to premiere internationally, following Our Loved Ones — easily her best film — which bowed at Locarno in 2015. What’s happened to Émond’s filmmaking in the decade since is a tale of what it means to target success in [...] The post Peak Everything – Anne Emond [Cannes ’25 Review] appeared first on In Review Online.

‘Peak Everything’ Review: Quebecois Filmmaker Anne Émond Finds Hope & Humor in A Gently Offbeat Apocalyptic Romance

Staring into a light-therapy solar lamp, Adam hopes to illuminate more than just his seasonal depression in “Peak Everything.” A kind-hearted yet emotionally stalled kennel-owner, Adam is overwhelmed by eco-anxiety, quietly drowning in feelings of personal inadequacy and unmoored from his day-to-day existence. Pushed around by his much younger, domineering assistant—who trades sex for labor—and stifled by the emotional vacancy of his aging fathe…