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Little Tougas

1976 Canadian film directed by Jean-Guy Noël

Little Tougas (French: Ti-Cul Tougas) is a Canadian comedy-drama film, directed by Jean-Guy Noël and released in 1976.[1] The film stars Claude Maher as Rémi Tougas, a musician who is hiding out in the Magdalen Islands with his girlfriend Odette (Micheline Lanctôt) after stealing his band's payment from a gig; they plan to further escape to California with Odette's friend Gilberte (Suzanne Garceau), but their plans are complicated when Rémi's bandmate Martin (Gilbert Sicotte) arrives to recover the money.[2]

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The cast also includes Louise Forestier, Jean-Louis Millette, Guy L'Écuyer and Gabriel Arcand.

Carmel Dumas of Cinema Canada praised the film, writing that it demonstrated "that a very good young cinema is hard on the heels of the Carles and the Jutras of Quebec's film community."[3]

The film won the Prix L.-E.-Ouimet-Molson from the Association québécoise des critiques de cinéma.[4]

References

  1. [1]
    Gerald Pratley, A Century of Canadian Cinema. Lynx Images, 2003. ISBN 1-894073-21-5. p. 128.
  2. [2]
    Charles-Henri Ramond, "Ti-Cul Tougas – Film de Jean-Guy Noël". Films du Québec, May 16, 2009.
  3. [3]
    Carmel Dumas, "Jean-Guy Noël's Ti-Cul Tougas". Cinema Canada, February 1977.
  4. [4]
    "Prix L.E. Ouimet-Molson". Ciné-Bulles, Vol. 4, No. 5, February/March 1985. p. 17.


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