Quentin Dupieux... Love him or hate him, you love him.

Smoking Causes Coughing is like eating food you find on a bus station bench in a strange town at 4am, and why wouldn't you?

Like that dumpster dived dinner, Dupieux's annual delirium this year comes in bits and pieces.

At 80 minutes long, not only does Smoking Causes Coughing continue his trend of medium-length features but, as it's an anthology film, is even more concise than his last movie, Incredible But True, which clocked in at 74 minutes.

The vignettes seem to suit him, though, and each individual story is wholly entertaining, contrary to most anthology films.

The titular longer work, which serves as the framing device for the rest of the shorts, revolves around Tobacco Force, a Power Ranger-esque group of super heroes (Mercury, Benzene, Ammonia, Nicotine, and Methanol) who swap 'creepy' stories while away on a team building retreat.

The tales they tell are just as quirky and off-beat as you'd expect from Dupieux, and include a cast of repeat offenders from his other films (Alain Chabat, Anaïs Demoustier, Adèle Exarchopoulos...) as well as some welcome new faces (Gilles Lellouche, Jean-Pascal Zadi, Doria Tillier).

Like a deep drag on a menthol cigarette, Smoking Causes Coughing is a breath of fresh air.