“The Paramedic” (**1/2 out of four) was a mildly engrossing foreign-language melodrama about an emergency-ambulance worker (Mario Casas) who is involved in a severe car accident and then begins to physically and mentally deteriorate and soon becomes suspicious of his partner (Deborah Francois) and starts to hold her hostage while his sanity unravels. Mixture of moody character study and Hitchcockian thriller themes doesn’t fully gel but keeps you in its grip thanks to solid performances and tight dierction from Carles Torras. Story starts to get lurid and over-the-top in its final third so this is overall a mixed bag.