Little Tougas

{{short description|1976 Canadian film directed by Jean-Guy Noël}} {{Infobox film | name = Little Tougas | native_name = {{Infobox name module|fr|Ti-Cul Tougas}} | image = | caption = Film poster | director = Jean-Guy Noël | producer = René Gueissaz<br>Marc Daigle | writer = Jean-Guy Noël | starring = Claude Maher<br>Micheline Lanctôt<br>Suzanne Garceau<br>Gilbert Sicotte | music = Georges Langford | cinematography = François Beauchemin | editing = Marthe de la Chevrotière | studio = ACPAV | distributor = | runtime = 84 minutes | released = {{film date|1976|10|08}} | country = Canada | language = French | budget = }} '''''Little Tougas''''' ({{langx|fr|Ti-Cul Tougas}}) is a Canadian comedy-drama film, directed by Jean-Guy Noël and released in 1976.<ref name=pratley>Gerald Pratley, ''A Century of Canadian Cinema''. Lynx Images, 2003. {{ISBN|1-894073-21-5}}. p. 128.</ref> 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.<ref>Charles-Henri Ramond, [https://www.filmsquebec.com/films/ti-cul-tougas-jean-guy-noel/ "Ti-Cul Tougas – Film de Jean-Guy Noël"]. ''Films du Québec'', May 16, 2009.</ref>

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."<ref>Carmel Dumas, "Jean-Guy Noël's Ti-Cul Tougas". ''Cinema Canada'', February 1977.</ref>

The film won the Prix L.-E.-Ouimet-Molson from the Association québécoise des critiques de cinéma.<ref name=cinébulles>"Prix L.E. Ouimet-Molson". ''Ciné-Bulles'', Vol. 4, No. 5, February/March 1985. p. 17.</ref>

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==External links== *{{IMDb title|0073807}}

Category:1976 films Category:1976 comedy-drama films Category:Canadian crime comedy-drama films Category:Quebec films Category:Films shot in Quebec Category:Films set in Quebec Category:1976 French-language films Category:French-language Canadian films Category:1976 Canadian films