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 town by Montreal, keeping a modest but orderly home, dedicatedly running a local kennel full of disarmingly sweet dogs, and so on. Still, something feels off in his soul, and it’s something he cannot seem to fix.
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