How ‘Cyrano’ Director Used Technical Cunning to Ensure the Film’s ‘Heartbeat’ Couldn’t Be Cut Out
thewrap.comhere.The song was written by members of the Brooklyn-based rock group The National (music by Aaron Dessner and Bryce Dessner; lyrics by Matt Berninger and Carin Carin Besser), originally for Erica Schmidt’s 2018 stage musical of “Cyrano.” In an interview with TheWrap in December, the band said that they consider “Wherever I Fall,” to be one of “the strongest songs we’ve written in our career” and a “timeless” song that they would’ve never written if not for ‘Cyrano.'”The open-hearted, plaintive ballad is sung by three soldiers to a messenger boy who is collecting letters from the battlefront.
Each man dedicates his portion of the song to a beloved person: one his wife, one his unrequited love, one his estranged father.
The studio was correct that “Wherever I Fall” is not sung by any of the film’s main cast, which includes Dinklage (as Cyrano de Bergerac), Haley Bennett (as Roxanne), Harrison (as Roxanne’s lover Christian) or Ben Mendelsohn (as the villainous De Guiche).
Individually or together, they sing all the songs in the movie, except for this one.In a trio of affecting miniature performances, the soldiers of “Wherever I Fall” are played by the Irish singer-songwriter Glen Hansard (an Oscar winner with Marketa Irglova in 2008 for “Falling Slowly” from “Once,” which was recently covered on “Emily in Paris”); American singer-songwriter Sam Amidon, who has released seven albums and performed with The National; and British actor and singer Scott Folan, recently the star of the London stage production of “Be More Chill.”The musical sequence only includes a few edits, as Wright and longtime cinematographer Seamus McGarvey (“Atonement,” “Anna Karenina”) opted to film the three actors in intimate close-ups.
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