Daniel Auteuil: "I have no problem with popularity"

It's a bay surrounded by scrubland, where the water, on its fine sandy bottom, takes on an opaline color in the sun. In winter, when the human tide recedes, wild boars and wild cows return to their homes, but for now it's a riot of parasols, buoys, splashing kids, and anti-UV creams.
La Rondinara, north of Bonifacio on the southwest coast of Corsica, is shaped like a shell and smells like a holiday. "When I arrived here, it was totally the image of 1960s Italian films for me," says Daniel Auteuil. While the actor owns a villa there, lost among the bushes of myrtle, immortelle, and herba-barona (Corsican thyme), which is a tourist dream, he has lost none of his working-class childhood and his love of family beaches.
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