‘Peak Everything’ Review: Absurdist Quebecois Comedy Tries to Do Too Many Things At Once

‘Peak Everything’ Review: Absurdist Quebecois Comedy Tries to Do Too Many Things At Once

Most of us involuntarily limit our daily interaction with the world’s incessant problems, just to preserve our basic sanity. But not Adam (Patrick Hivon), the instantly lovable lead of Anne Émond’s genially (and, sometimes, tediously) absurdist Quebecois tragicomedy “Peak Everything.” It’s not that Adam is stuck in a dysfunctional rut from opening his soul to every single global calamity. On the surface, he has it together: living in a small tow…

‘Peak Everything’ Review: A Light Comedy About the End of the World

A movie called “Peak Everything” might seem to imply a certain measure of maximalism, but Anne Émond’s disarmingly low-key romance — its title alluding to the strain that the 21st century has placed on all of the world’s resources at once — prefers to vibe off the emotional paralysis of living at the end of the world. To borrow a word that the film doesn’t bother to define (we know what it means even if we don’t know what it means), this twee Fr…

Anne Emond's "Peak Everything" - Cannes 2025 Film Review

The director delivers some sunshine in dark times with this wild romcom in which an anxious man with a broken lamp finds light elsewhere. The post Cannes 2025 Review: Anne Émond’s “Peak Everything” Finds Happiness in a World Gone Mad appeared first on The Moveable Fest.