‘Peak Everything’ Review: Quebecois Filmmaker Anne Émond Finds Hope & Humor in A Gently Offbeat Apocalyptic Romance [Cannes]
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 father, with whom he still lives, Adam has little agency.
