This is one of the most underrated Coen Brothers films, it is also one of the strangest, but that fact gets buried a bit in it's veneer of extreme seriousness and the fact that it is a modern film in black and white. The strange little alien sub-plot is worth "the price of entry" so to speak. And, it has a Christmas moment too. A Christmas party at the department store Nirdlinger's Department Store. It's not nearly as festive an occasion as one might find at department store scene in movies such A Christmas Story, which sports a charming strangeness. Clip can be found here.
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