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“Willie and Me,” written, directed by, and starring German actress and first-time feature filmmaker Eva Hassmann, is about a German housewife named Greta Weingarten who bolts from her unsatisfying marriage to a rich jerk who doesn’t appreciate her, and goes to America to see the final performance of Willie Nelson, a performer she’s been obsessed with since she was a girl growing up with an alcoholic and (it seems) mentally ill mother. Nelson, who was 90 at the time of the movie’s release, plays himself in concert footage and has brief cameos as himself and a second (and rather unfortunate; you’ll know what I mean when you see him) character. Nelson reportedly got involved in “Willie and Me” because somebody sent him the script through a mutual connection.