by Anne Emond Peak Everything (Amour Apocalypse) is a personal letter, like a movie to recall the Quebec director’s severe COVID-era depression in Montreal.

Frankly Emond told Hollywood Reporter Inspiration for her sixth film, a dark romantic comedy premiered for the Cannes Film Festival. Peak Everything Centered on the French-speaking and overwhelmed kennel owner Adam, played by Patrick Hivon, who struggles with deep depression and high ecological anxiety in the apocalypse, as if the asteroids will destroy the asteroid as we know it.

But it was until the world shook, and Adam immediately fell in love with Tina, a British-speaking customer service representative in Ontario by Piper Perabo. "I'm Adam," Eimmond insisted Peak Everything When locked in Montreal in 2020, her purgatory was inspired by her purgatory.

"I was frustrated, not just depression, I was in a bad state. I knew a lot of people had mental health. I was 40 and I thought I was safe and I was not doing well at the beginning of the pandemic." To help overcome my discomfort, Emond tried running and meditating like Adam in the movie, but failed.

However, during the pandemic, a friend of the screenwriter provided Emond with a light therapy lamp with a customer support phone number. She never called the lamp company's hotline, but Peak Everything Adam did find Tina's soft, reassuring voice on the other end of the phone, calming his nerves and stirring his romantic juice.

When a natural disaster stopped their phone, a panicked Adam jumped into his car to Tina. Peak Everything With a unique visual style, full of poetic, quirky scenes, Adam and Tina find each other at first, then discover pleasure and purpose in comedy adventures and flirting.

Although Emond portrays Tina as lively and quirky in the early days of her film, Perabo's character will soon reveal deeper complexity and challenges. "Tina may be stronger and solid, but she also has her own problems, she is surrounded by people with real troubles and problems." Eimmond said Tina is not just a girl in distress, without her own desires.

Peak Everything In a world facing environmental catastrophe and destruction, the emotional collapse of men is also a fable, as the film resonates with Emond’s fear of mental health and climate change during the pandemic.

"Just like the Earth's performance is as bad as I do, this is what Adam looks like." To this end, Emond includes archival footage of forest wildfires and melting icebergs in her films, when Adam bravely blows a storm, wind and rain are Peak Everything In the iconic process, go to that guy.

That's because Emond never thought of his own self-healing movie becoming frustrated. "It's a gentle movie. It's a love story. I want people to smile, I still believe in love, and I still like humanity and everything. However, this movie is still saying that we have real challenges," the director explained.

Peak Everything It's also a bilingual film, as it marks Emond's first move beyond French filmmaking, which includes English-speaking characters. "This is super Canadian. We are a bilingual country. Why not use it? We speak English all the time in Montreal."

Peak Everything Now will be held in Cannes as a global premiere as part of its two-week show on the director, a date for her film Destiny, and Eimmond admits she is filled with joy and anxiety. She recalled, “The day they called me and I was like, ‘Oh my god, it was amazing’ and I jumped up and happy.”

But Emond is very Adam, and the director was anxious before the movie was released in France. "I became very anxious. Joy became super fast," Emond recalls.

but Peak EverythingComments on the chaotic world and threatened by climate change may strike the zeitgeist of Cannes. "I'm the worst person, knowing what I've done, but my impression is a movie that comes out at the perfect moment. Everyone in the movie is overwhelmed. Everyone goes above and beyond the top and doesn't understand how things work," Emond explained.

"We're all going crazy, there's AI, there's climate change, and (Donald) Trump, and I hope this movie reflects that," she added. Emond believes filmmakers and other artists can answer our chaotic times, which may have lifted viewers out of their comfort zone and raised awareness of prevailing challenges and injustice.

“We are in a bad state, but at least I think the novel may be important in dealing with the challenges that are coming,” she said. Peak Everything The same banner for the Cannes Award winner drama produced by Metafilms, Mathew Rankin Common Language.

Ensemble actor Peak Everything Including Connor Jessup, Gilles Renaud, Elizabeth Mageren, Eric K. Boulianne and Gord Rand and Indie Sales will shop in the Cannes movie.