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.

[2] In 1962, she married the reporter Lucien Bodard, whom she had met in southeast Asia, and the two subsequently moved to Paris.

Two years later she produced the musical The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, which won the Palm d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival.

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 produced her last television film, Inconnue de la départementale, in 2006 at the age of ninety.