“A Good Little Soldier” is a new workplace drama from writer-director Stéphane Brizé featuring Alba Rohrwacher as Carla Moretti. As portrayed in the reviews, the film largely tracks Carla’s day-to-day routine as she moves between work and nearby places, creating a claustrophobic sense of being constantly at or connected to the office.
Both outlets describe the story as tense and centered on a woman caught in pressures from both motherhood and corporate life. Hollywood Reporter frames the film as a workplace drama about the strain of motherhood within “corporate hell,” while also positioning it within broader concerns about late-stage capitalism. Variety, meanwhile, characterizes the film as lukewarm and focuses on how little time Carla appears away from her job, suggesting a tightly confined, corporate-driven atmosphere.
The reviews agree on the main cast and the film’s general theme: a contemporary corporate environment that constrains and shapes the character’s personal life, with motherhood playing a central role. Differences mainly lie in critical tone and emphasis—Variety on the day-in, day-out depiction of work, and Hollywood Reporter on the conflict between family responsibilities and corporate power.
