The producer Mag Bodard, a pioneer of the French cinema of the 1960s and 1970s, which remains a figure unknown to the general public, died last Tuesday. DR / Joost Evers / Anefo Mag Bodard, a key figure and yet unknown film of the French New Wave and more widely in the 1960s-1970s, is dead at the age of 103 years. Born Marguerite Perato in Italy in 1916, she grew up in France and began his career in the media, particularly as a correspondent in Indochina for the magazine Elle. She married the journalist Lucien Bodard, and then, retrour in France, she meets Pierre Lazareff, director of the daily France-Soir. As he does not engage in the program, Five columns to the one that he produced for television, Mag Bodard embarked on the production of cinema. She founded the company Park Films and produced his first feature film, La Gamberge with Françoise Dorléac, in 1961 : “As I wanted to make the image, I decided to become a producer. I first made a film that was a failure complete and after I said ‘I only do what I want’. And I saw Lola of Jacques Demy.” She then climbs the company Ciné Mag Bodard, and reveals the greatest filmmakers of the time : Jacques Demy, Agnès Varda, Robert Bresson, and Jean-Luc Godard, Alain Resnais or Maurice Pialat. It is she who produces The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, The young girls of Rochefort, Mouchette, The Chinese, I love you, I love you and The Child naked. In total, he has made forty films for the cinema, and then a hundred for the tv. The Académie des César has paid tribute to this personality “persevering, determined, and modern” that “concentrating fully on each project, and to its director, helping him by all means to complete his film, as he had imagined.” For his part, the president of CNC Frederique Bredin has hailed an “adventurer and a free spirit, a great lover of the 7th art” having “worked in the shadow to put light on the greatest artists” and “marked the French cinema of his visionary look”. Fifteen years ago, in may 2004, the Cinémathèque française had spent a cycle at that the filmmakers of the New Wave called “Maguy” and had asked Agnès Varda, whose Mag Bodard had produced The Happiness and Creatures, to write the text for the brochure, which can be found on the website of the Cinémathèque . His funeral will be celebrated tomorrow morning, Tuesday, march 5, at Neuilly-sur-Seine. The trailer for the Umbrellas of Cherbourg won the Palme d’or at the Cannes film Festival in 1964 : The Umbrellas of Cherbourg trailer VF