Can love prevail when the world is falling apart? That’s the question Québécois filmmaker Anne Émond (Nuit #1) poses in this adventurous hybrid: a climate-crisis romantic comedy. Forty-five-year-old Adam (Patrick Hivon) runs a kennel for rescue dogs but struggles with depression when he can’t imagine humans extending that same rescue instinct to themselves. It’s only when he decides to purchase a therapeutic lamp — falling in love with the customer service operator on the other end of the phone (Piper Perabo) in the process — that he’s shaken out of his torpor. But even that faint flame will face environmental threats…
Peak Everything (the French language title is more evocative: Amour Apocalypse) dares to zigzag from slow burn melancholia to wild slapstick, deadpan absurdism to screwball romance. Writer-director Émond has cited Punch-Drunk Love as an inspiration for the movie’s jarring shifts. It keeps us off balance — just like its unsuspecting soulmates, knocked sideways by love.
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Patrick Hivon, Piper Perabo, Connor Jessup, Gilles Renaud, Elizabeth Mageren, Éric K. Boulianne
Canada
2025
In French and English with English subtitles
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Credits & Director
Executive Producer
Anne Émond, Isil Gilderdale, Emily Harris, Donovan M. Boden, Harland Weiss, James Cunnigham, Dominic Thomas
Producer
Sylvain Corbeil
Screenwriter
Anne Émond
Cinematography
Olivier Gossot
Editor
Anita Roth
Production Design
Sylvain Lemaitre
Original Music
Christophe Lamarche Ledoux
Anne Émond
Anne Émond lives and works in Montreal. Since 2005, she has written and directed seven short films and five features including Night #1 (2011), which received a Jury Special Mention at TIFF and Best Canadian Feature Film Award at VIFF; Our Loved Ones, which was included in TIFF’s Canada’s Top Ten for 2015; and Young Juliet (2019), winner of the Canadian Screen Award for Best Original Screenplay and Audience Choice Award at CIFF; among others. Her sixth film, Peak Everything (2025), premiered at the 57th Cannes’ Directors’ Fortnight and won the Grand Jury Prize at the Cabourg Film Festival.
Filmography: Nuit #1 (2011); Our Loved Ones (2015); Nelly (2016); Young Juliette (2019); Lucy Grizzli Sophie (2024)
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