Love All You Have Left is about a grieving mother who has recently lost her daughter in a school shooting. While mourning, the mother is visited by a girl who claims to be Anne Frank.

Love All You Have Left has a bold and unique story about dealing with seemingly insurmountable grief. I recently became a father, so stories about the death of a child have had a larger impact on me of late. Obviously school shootings are becoming more and more common these days and I think strike fear into just about every parent as well. The film certainly resonated with me. When I watch independent films, I look first and foremost for unique and compelling storytelling and this film definitely had that. If you're looking for an original drama, I'd highly recommend checking out Love All You Have Left!

Matt Siverton is the writer/director behind Love All You Have Left, a beautifully filmed tale that's as ambitious in its storyline's conception as it is in its successful on-screen execution. Remarkable in premise yet elegant in its telling, Siverton's film incredulously allows us to discover Anne Frank in the attic of a modern-day home. Indeed, this is the very same journaling Anne Frank forced to live in an attic in terror alongside her family during World War II, only to be discovered by the Nazis just weeks before their war machine crumbled.

Siverton's film first introduces us to the sadly beautiful Juliette, played with wonderful depth and pathos by Caroline Amiguet. After the death of a daughter at the hands of school shooters, Juliette soon discovers a girl living in her attic. And from that discovery, pain is both relived and reconfigured.

Through beautiful writing, cinematography, and exceedingly fluid editing, Love All You Have Left reminds us that grief is simply the most brutal, crushing attribute of the human condition. And in an end that in no way disappoints, Siverton also reminds us that not only can we persevere after loss, but that finding a way to do so is nothing short of our life's work.

I don't believe I've ever given a 1 star rating out of maybe watching 4-5 films a week for years. There is not a single area to compliment on this film and every single aspect of it is pure poo-poo.

There is so much to criticize i will mention only one topic about this video. The canned music, or so I thought, was the only thing that kept me from walking out during this viewing. I wanted to see where the Mr. Sivertson got the canned music for the soundtrack as it was so awful. The credits showed it to be an original score by .... ta-daa, the Director, Matt Sivertson, who also wrote and .... um, composed this piece of garbage. I would be so ashamed and embarrassed to attach my name to this let alone claim credit for total control of it.

The only joy of this wasted hour and a half came after the movie ended, and myself and the other 2 people in the theater walked out with jaws dropped. I approached them to see what they thought and we didn't even know where to start in complaining about how bad it was. We all got a good laugh eventually and one of the guys said he just moved out to Hollywood to act and this movie really motivated him. He said if actors with talent this bad could find work then he was sure to do quite well.

I do want to find out the back story of this flick. It had a 7.6 or 7.7 when i first gave it a 2 out of 8 stars. I saw the next day, after my rating that it climbed to 7.8 which really got under my skin so i had second thoughts and went back to rate it a 1... again, my first 1 star i think...... So, i really want to find out if the paychecks of the crew were withheld unless they all gave it great ratings? Was this movie made just to appease some relative of Sivertson's simply so he could get funding for a real project. Was this an inside joke amongst friends to see how bad a movie could be and still get people to watch in the age of "MoviePass'? I mean, all three of us watching this only went because there was nothing else to see, we all had already cycled through every other possible movie available that week.

Oh, and PLEASE don't think this is a movie so bad it's funny, like The Room or Battlefield Earth. it's not even comical in a sad way, it's just SAD people would waste their time making or watching this..... hmm, this movie had to be a tax right off or something... i really wanna know!