Guillaume, la jeunesse du conquérant

The DVD calls itself 'William the Conqueror', not signalling that it is in French, and entirely set before William set sail.

Seeing the Conquer as a child and young man fighting for survival however quite interesting.

The battle scenes were realistic, though it was often unclear which side anyone was on.

Worth it for serious viewers.

I have been trying to find films about English kings & Queens in the order of their reign and the only film i can find about William the Conqueror is this story about the time when he is about to embark from Dives-sur-Mer to conquer England in the year 1066 and his memories of how he got where he was despite significant opposition.

Historically this film was fairly informative as i wasn't aware what had happened to William before his invasion of England but if you are going to make a film about William The Conqueror surely it should be about The Battle of Hastings? This barely gets a mention.

The film has an amateurish feel about it. I looks good but the fight scenes are not very realistic and some of the acting from the minor actors is very poor.

I'm sure i will see better films in my quest to watch movies about all the Kings and Queens and alternately i'm going to see much worse.

Beautiful photography, not so bad performances, a simple story with motivational aspects, good fight scenes and the frame of the story to the boy about the childhood and youth of his father. Result - decent one , in my case remembering the film about William The Conqueror by Sergiu Nicolaescu.