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\n\tAnne Emond\u2019s Peak Everything<\/em> (Amour Apocalypse) is a personal letter as much as a movie to recall the Quebec director\u2019s severe COVID-era depression in Montreal.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI would say in the beginning, I had to save myself, a little bit. That\u2019s how it started,\u201d a candid Emond tells The Hollywood Reporter<\/em> about the inspiration for her sixth movie, a dark romantic comedy, set for a world premiere in Cannes. Peak Everything<\/em> centers on Adam, a French-speaking and overwhelmed kennel owner played by Patrick Hivon who struggles with deep depression and high eco-anxiety about the end of the world as if an asteroid was set to destroy life as we know it. <\/p>\n

\n\tBut that\u2019s until, as the world trembles, Adam falls instantly and inextricably in love with Tina, an English-speaking customer service rep for a light therapy lamp company in Ontario, played by Piper Perabo. \u201cI am Adam,\u201d Emond insists as Peak Everything <\/em>was inspired by her COVID-era purgatory in 2020 while on lock down in Montreal.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI felt depressed, more than that, a depression, I wasn\u2019t doing well. I know a lot of people suffer from mental health. I was 40 years old, I thought I was safe, I wasn\u2019t doing great at the beginning of the pandemic,\u201d she recalled. To help get over her malaise, Emond tried running and meditation, as does Adam in her film, but without success. <\/p>\n

\n\tBut a screenwriter friend gave Emond a light therapy lamp during the pandemic that had a customer support phone number. She never rang the lamp company\u2019s hot line, but in Peak Everything<\/em> Adam does, only to discover at the other end of the phone a soft, reassuring voice from Tina that calms his nerves and stirs his romantic juices. <\/p>\n

\n\tAnd when a natural disaster halts their call, an alarmed Adam jumps in his car to get to Tina. Peak Everything<\/em> has a distinctive visual style filled with poetic, quirky scenes where Adam and Tina at first find one another, and then discover pleasure and purpose in their comedic adventures and flirtations. <\/p>\n

\n\tAnd while Emond deliberately portrayed Tina early on in her film as vivacious and quirky, Perabo\u2019s character is soon revealed to have deeper complexities and challenges. \u201cTina may be a little stronger and solid, but she also has her problems and she\u2019s surrounded by people with real troubles and problems,\u201d Emond says of Tina being more than a damsel in distress with no desires of her own.<\/p>\n

\n\tPeak Everything<\/em> is also a fable about a man\u2019s emotional collapse amid a world facing environmental catastrophe and ruin, as the film echoes again Emond having fears for her mental health and climate change during the pandemic. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIt\u2019s like the Earth was doing as bad as me, and that\u2019s how it is for Adam,\u201d the director recounts. To that end, Emond includes archival footage of forest wildfires and melting icebergs in her film as Adam braves a storm with heavy winds and pelting rain towards the end of Peak Everything <\/em>during an iconic go get the guy scene.<\/p>\n

\n\tThat\u2019s because Emond never wanted her self-healing film to be a downer. \u201cIt\u2019s a tender film. It\u2019s a love story. I want people to smile, and I still believe in love, and I still love human beings and everything. But still, the film is saying we\u2019re facing real challenges,\u201d the director explains.<\/p>\n

\n\tPeak Everything<\/em> is also a bilingual film as it marks Emond for the first time going beyond French-language movie making to include English-speaking characters. \u201cIt\u2019s super Canadian. We\u2019re a bilingual country. Why not use it? We all speak English all the time in Montreal,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n

\n\tPeak Everything <\/em>will now have its world premiere at Cannes as part of its Directors\u2019 Fortnight program, a date with destiny for her film that Emond admits fills her with joy and anxiety. \u201cThe day they called me, I was like, \u2018Oh My God, it\u2019s amazing,\u2019 and I was jumping and happ<\/a>y,\u201d she recalls.<\/p>\n

\n\tBut Emond being very much Adam, the director also feels high anxiety ahead of her film\u2019s launch in France. \u201cI became super anxious. Joy became anxiety super fast,\u201d Emond recalls.<\/p>\n

\n\tBut Peak Everything<\/em>, in its commentary on a world in chaos and threatened by climate change, could hit the zeitgeist in Cannes. \u201cI\u2019m the worst person to know what I did, but I\u2019m under the impression the film is coming out at the perfect time. Everyone in the film is overwhelmed. Everyone is over the top and don\u2019t understand how things work anymore,\u201d Emond explains.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWe\u2019re all going crazy and there\u2019s AI and there\u2019s climate change and there\u2019s (Donald) Trump, and I wanted the film to reflect that,\u201d she adds. And Emond sees filmmakers and other artists as an answer to our chaotic times in possibly taking audiences out of their comfort zones and raising awareness about prevailing challenges and injustices.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u2018We\u2019re in a bad position, but at least I believe fiction might be important to deal with the challenges that are coming,\u201d she argues. Peak Everything <\/em>is produced by Metafilms, the same banner behind Matthew Rankin\u2019s Cannes prize-winning absurdist drama Universal Language<\/em>. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe ensemble cast for Peak Everything <\/em>includes Connor Jessup, Gilles Renaud, Elizabeth Mageren, Eric K. Boulianne and Gord Rand and Indie Sales will be shopping the film in Cannes. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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