Delicatessen 1991

Delicatessen is a post apocalyptic film about an eccentric household struggling to get by (Who also happen to be a bit cannibalistic). It is a Black comedy by Jean Pierre Jeunet and in my opinion one of his finest films.
I have chosen a comical sequence between two characters who don't really relate in much of the rest of the film, but in this dance-like scene the characters come together naturally to create a scene which helps develop the comic side of the film and prevents it from becoming a depressing film about struggle.
There are 12 shots in this short scene lasting for 1 minute and 54 seconds, making the scene quite short, but Jeunet keeps the sequence rhythmic by adding music and acting which correlate.
The scene starts of with shots that last from 5 seconds to 8 seconds and uses these as introductions. Although the scene is in French the audience needs hardly any dialogue to read the film, Louison enters to fix the bed springs and is greeted by Plusse. From shots 3 to 7 we have parallel shots between the two characters and this allows the audience to view both characters actions and get a feel for the room, we know where things are, we can see that the music is coming from the TV, it all builds up to the comical dance scene that is about to come.
The bed scene itself is between 13 seconds and 20 seconds, these shots are longer and wider to allow us to see the movement between the characters, they bounce on the bed and its funny, its in time to the music and in some ways the audience wants to bounce along with them, because its funny, because of the timing simply because we want to join in. Jeunet has made us fond of Louison and we want to join in with his games.
Its also amusing because of the sexual nature of the scene (or the lack of sex in the scene) We know that the bed is squeaky from other scene where the bed has been used for Sex, but in this case the bed is not, it is simple and childlike, the sound reminds us of the sex but here innocents replaces it and it is almost ironic. He uses a lot of two shots, straight angles of the characters which makes the scene even more comical, the camera moves with them, making the audience move with them.
I think really its the timing that makes this scene so funny to watch, there's something quite artistic about it, in this grim world they live in we have this happy little scene which makes everything okay again, and Jeunet does this over and over again within the film.   

Here is a link to the wonderful scene:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ke4Ua_mFfZ8&feature=related