Mag Bodard

Mag Bodard (3 January 1916 – 26 February 2019) was an Italian-born French film producer, known for The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, Donkey Skin, and The Young Girls of Rochefort. Life Bodard was born in Turin as Margherita Maria Renata Perato. She was a journalist working for women's magazine Elle before going into film producing. In 1962 she married the reporter Lucien Bodard, whom she had met in southeast Asia, and the two subsequently moved to Paris. Through his contacts she became an editor for the newspaper France-Soir, where she began an affair with its owner Pierre Lazareff. Bodard's first film was The Dance in 1962. Two years later she produced the musical The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, which won the Palm d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival. The film was also nominated for two Academy Awards, a Golden Globe, and a Grammy. Bodard would go on to produce several dozen more films and worked with renowned directors such as Agnès Varda on Le Bonheur, Jean-Luc Goddard on 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her and La Chinoise, Robert Bresson on Au Hasard Balthazar and A Gentle Woman, and Alain Resnais on Je t'aime, je t'aime. She promoted the careers of directors such as Maurice Pialat, Nina Companeez, and Claude Miller.