How ‘One Battle After Another’ Shot Across a ‘Tapestry of California’: Finding the Car Chase Hills, Filming Next to the Border Wall and Consulting With Real Weed-Growing Nuns

All Paul Thomas Anderson movies are layered with fascinating characters and distinctive looks, but “One Battle After Another” might be the most ambitious of them all in terms of its massive scope. The movie races across the desert east of San Diego, down to the Tijuana border and into the NorCal redwoods as Sean Penn’s whacked-out Col Steven J. Lockjaw pursues Leonardo DiCaprio‘s depressed stoner Bob and his radiant teenage daughter Willa, played by Chase Infiniti.

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